ppl. a. [f. LIFT v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.: Raised aloft, upreared, elevated, exalted; stolen, etc. Also with up.
1559. Aylmer, Harborowe, R 3. Let ys daylye call to God with lifted vp heartes and handes.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXXIX. v. Thy lifted hand a might of wonder showeth.
1654–66. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 725. She endeavour’d to stop his lifted-up Arm from falling on me.
1667. Milton, P. L., XI. 866. In the Cloud a Bow, Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay.
1703. Rowe, Ulysses, IV. i. 1803. Provoke the lifted Sword and pointed Spear.
c. 1730. Burt, Lett. Gentl. N. Scotl. (1754), II. 93. His Grandfather … is therein assured of the immediate Restitution of his Lifted, that is, stolen Cows.
1819. Wordsw., Waggoner, IV. 15. The morning light in grace Strikes upon his lifted face.
1859. Ruskin, Two Paths, iv. (1891), 184. All their changing grace of depressed or lifted pinnacle.
1859. Geo. Eliot (title), The Lifted Veil.
1883. Mrs. Hopkins, Autumn Swallows, Bormus, Down from the lifted cornfield trips The child.
1885–94. R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche, April xxv. The last red ray Fled from her lifted arm.
