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Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 160
el-e-fant-fa-sis, n. a disease in which the legs become thick like the elephant's. — [Gr. elephas Elephantine, el-e-fan'tin, tuij pertaining to the elephant like an elephant very large Elevate, el'e-v5t, v to raise to a higher position to raise in mind and feelings to impiove to cheer. [L. elevo elevahis —e, out, up, /rrw, to raise levis, light. See Light, adj- Elevation, el-e-va's hun, n the act of elevating or raising, or the state of being raised exaltation an elevated place or station a rising ground height (arch.) a geometrical view of the side of a budding [gun.) the angle made by the line of direction of a gun with the plane of the luu i/on. Elevator, el'e-vu-toi, n the person or tiling tlut lifts up a machine for raising grain, &» to a higher floor a muscle raising a part of the Inxly Elevatory el'e-v5-tnr-i,
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