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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The upper subsoils of Scotland bear frequent mark of the elevatory period which succeeded this period of depression.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
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
High land is not produced simply by uniform upheaval, but by a predominance of elevatory over subsiding movements.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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
I think it will not be disputed, considering the presence of the upraised marine shells, that the sea has been the active power during stages of some kind in the elevatory process.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
