pa. pple. and ppl. a. [UP- 5. Cf. UPLIFT v. and pa. pple.]

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  1.  Raised, elevated, held up; also fig., exalted in estate.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter xxxvi. 37. Vphouen I saw þe wicked man And lifted [H. uplifted; L. elevatum] als cedre of Yban. Ibid., lxxxvii. 16. I am up-lifted [L. exaltatus], I am meked.

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c. 1410.  Lanterne of Liȝt, 129. I haue sen þe vnpitiuouse … enhaunsid & vplifted as þe cedre trees of Liban.

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1593.  Shaks., Rich. II., II. ii. 50. The banish’d Bullingbrocke … with vp-lifted Armes is safe arriu’d At Rauenspurg.

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1630.  Milton, Solemn Music, 11. Where the bright Seraphim … Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow. Ibid. (1667), P. L., I. 347. Th’ uplifted Spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct Thir course.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., II. 424. The matron with uplifted eyes Attests th’ all-seeing Sovereign of the skies.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, VII. 125. This dame in effigie, with uplifted head and hand.

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1822.  Scott, Nigel, xiv. ‘Now, Heaven bless you, my lord,’ said Richie Moniplies, with uplifted eyes.

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1868.  Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 225. These table-lands … are the uplifted beds of an ancient ocean.

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1887.  Bowen, Æneid, IV. 246. The uplifted crest and the proud Slopes of the age-worn Atlas.

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  fig.  1595.  Spenser, Col. Clout, 816. So we him adore With humble hearts to heauen vplifted hie.

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1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, V. 226. Yet I … will pour out Thanks with uplifted heart.

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  b.  Exalted in fame; renowned.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VI. Prol. vi. Yet so from low to high vplifted is your name.

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1885.  Tennyson, Balin & Balan, 491. A name … Which our high Lancelot hath so lifted up, And been thereby uplifted.

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  2.  Elevated intellectually, morally, or spiritually.

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c. 1454.  Pecock, Folewer, 15. Þe more a man … takiþ into him of kunnyng, þe more is his resoun vp liftid.

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1548.  Geste, Pr. Masse, H ij b. With our myndes eleuate and vplifted.

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1818.  Shelley, Eugan. Hills, 360. The winds whose wings rain balm On the uplifted soul.

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1839.  Bailey, Festus, 46. Are they not worthy of a deathless state; A boundless scope; a high uplifted life?

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1890.  J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, I. 116. Ye gladdened and uplifted ones, come ye aside also awhile with Jesus.

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  3.  Elated; rendered proud. Now Sc. and north. dial.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., III. ii. 175. Or that perswasion could but thus conuince me,… How were I then vp-lifted.

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1747.  Mem. Nutrebian Crt., II. 82. Maillan, excessively up-lifted with the imagined advancement of his daughter.

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1823.  Scott, Quentin D., xvi. He said, that … they were uplifted in heart Because of their wealth and their privileges.

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1897.  W. Beatty, Secretar, xli. Being so uplifted at the part I was like to play.

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  4.  Raised in utterance.

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1828.  Atherstone, Fall of Nineveh, I. 114.

    Them, as they went with proud uplifted voice,
Thus Azareel bespake: [etc.].

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1863.  Miss Braddon, Aurora Floyd, xiii. Did the unlucky speculators … hide themselves while the uplifted voices were rejoicing?

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  Hence Upliftedness.

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1893.  Scribner’s Mag., Sept., 387/1. I hate the coldness and upliftedness of religion.

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