Elevation

(1) In Architecture, ., a perpendicular plan drawn to a scale. (2) In Christian archæology, the lifting up of the elements at certain points in the Eucharistic service, universally prescribed in the early Oriental liturgies, and introduced into the Western Church with the doctrine of transubstantiation. IMG:6949005855195395773_fig_282.jpg: Fig. 282. Bas-relief from the frieze of the Par the non. One of the Elgin Marbles.