From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Meanings
Elated; exultant.
Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. 1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28:
Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate,
Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto III:
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus
And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield
with upper lip elate
From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Meanings
(transitive) To make joyful or proud.
That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […] 1749, The Universal Magazine, volume 4, page 321: