elevate
verb (used with object)
to move or raise to a higher place or position; lift up.
elevatory
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a word derived from
elevate.
Example Sentences
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It would appear also, that the elevatory and subsiding movements follow nearly the same laws.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Probably the country was elevated at each shock, in a slight degree; and perhaps before the volcano of Mount Gambier became extinct the elevatory movements were more rapid.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
My object in giving the following measurements of the plains, as taken by the Officers of the Survey, is, as will hereafter be seen, to show the remarkable equability of the recent elevatory movements.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
Shells thus cast up by gales, would, during an elevatory period, never again be touched by the sea.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
Occasionally some of the calamite brakes and forests of Sigillariae and Coniferae were exposed in the flood season, or sometimes, perhaps, by slight elevatory movements to the denuding action of the river or the sea.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
