elevated

comparative more elevated · superlative most elevated

1. Raised, usually above ground level.
2. Increased, particularly above a normal level.

   The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.

   Synonyms: heightened

3. Of a higher intellectual or moral quality.

   the elevated language of poetry

4. Of a higher rank or status: noble, dignified.
5. computingRunning with administrator rights.

   Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

6. archaiceuphemisticslangIntoxicated; drunk.

   ‘I hope,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.’ ‘Oh dear, no,’ replied Ben Allen. ‘Except when he’s elevated, Bob’s the quietest creature breathing.’

   1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC

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   A man whom Tom knew was returning one evening from a fair, a little elevated of course, when he met a berrin (i. e. funeral), which he joined, as is the custom; but, to his surprise, there was no one there that he knew except one man, and he had been dead for some years.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 367

7. human sciencesOf a higher register or style.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of elevate

plural elevateds

1. USAn elevated railway.

   the Washington Street Elevated

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   Mr. Nunheim's home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.

   1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 16, in The Thin Man, New York: Knopf

   While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.

   2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York