elate

elateverb/ɪˈleɪt/

• 1

  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: […]
• 2

  To lift up; raise; elevate.

elateadj/ɪˈleɪt/

• 1

  Elated; exultant.

  • Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
  • Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
• 2

  obsoleteLifted up; raised; elevated.

  • c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield with upper lip elate
  • 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.