ppl. a. [f. EXALT v.]
1. Raised or set up on high; elevated.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., I. i. 65. Weepe your teares Into the Channell, till the lowest streame Do kisse the most exalted Shores of all.
a. 1631. Drayton, Elegies, To W. Brown. Thoughts … winged to fly To that exalted stand.
1728. Pope, Dunc., II. 175. Thro’ half the heav’ns he pours the exalted urn.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., II. 108. The Great King … from an exalted throne beheld the misfortunes of his arms.
† b. Of the voice: Elevated, raised aloud. Obs.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 147, ¶ 2. These pronounce the first part of a Sentence with a very exalted Voice.
1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 74. With an exalted Voice, Captain C—P, says [etc.].
1790. ‘A Lady,’ Norman & Bertha, II. 148. Mrs. Westbrook and Norman heard their exalted voices, but could not distinguish their words.
2. Elevated in rank, station, or public estimation. Usually without implication of any previous lower condition: Highly placed, of high station, etc. An exalted personage: used for someone of high (usually royal or princely) rank, whom it is not desired to designate explicitly.
1623–6. Cockeram, II. Exalted, promoted.
1737. Pope, Hor. Epist., II. ii. 106. Peers give way, exalted as they are, Ev’n to their own S-r-v-nce in a car.
1800. Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington, Wks. (1809), 116. Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxii. The physician … hoped he saw his exalted patient merry and happy.
1847. G. E. Corrie, 14 Feb., in M. Holroyd, Mem. (1890), 248. To place over us an exalted personage, who has not been educated among us.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 41. Any man whom a revolution has ever hurled down from an exalted station.
3. Of persons: Impassioned, rapturously excited.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 503, ¶ 2. When the Musick was strong and bold, she look’d exalted, but serious.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XII. From vale To vale the exalted Adosinda went.
b. Of the pulse: High, rapid.
1742. Fielding, J. Andrews, I. xiii. His pulse was very exalted.
4. Of feelings, powers, sentiments, states of the mind: † a. Carried to a high degree; intense. b. Elevated, lofty in character; sublime, noble. Cf. EXALTATION 2 d, e.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. v. 30. Besides she uses me with a more exalted respect, than any one else.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., I. vi. He, whose high Reason, and exalted Piety, has … plac’d him above them.
1704. J. Trapp, Abra-Mulé, II. i. 381. You cannot boast a more exalted Hatred Against the Visier’s Person.
1746–7. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 160. The light of God’s countenance will irradiate … all their exalted faculties.
1812. Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 12. Warm with the ardor of an extending and exalted religion, men were much more disposed to believe than to reason.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Goethe, Wks. (Bohn), I. 382. Some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation.
c. Of diction: Elevated, ‘high-flown.’
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. (1843), I. 6/1. After many exalted expressions to that purpose.
1684. Earl Roscom., Ess. Translated Verse, 26. In what exalted streins Sicilian Muses … Proclaim Saturnian Times.
1739. T. Sheridan, trans. Persius, Ded. 8. A most exalted Lecture, instructing us in the true Freedom of the Mind.
† 5. Chem. and Phys. Refined, sublimed, concentrated. Cf. EXALT v. 3. Of flavor, smell, etc.: Intense, strong. Obs.
1594. Plat, Jewell-ho., III. 85. To make proiection … with a medicine so exalted, as that one shal extend vpon a hundreth.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 14. It contains a great deal of exalted Oil.
1746. R. James, Introd. Moufet’s Health’s Improv., 18. The Solan Goose … whose Flesh is of a very exalted Taste.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Exaltation, Most sulphurous matters, much exalted, are observed to be of a red colour.
1796. Pegge, Anonym. (1809), 146. The venom of the Adder, or English Viper, is not so exalted … as that of the Italian.
