elevation (elevashon)

[ I hope a proper elevation of voice, a due emphasis and accent, are not to come within this description. Steele , Spectator, No. 147. I can add nothing to the accounts already published of the elevation of the land at Val para i so which accompanied the earthquake of 1822. Darwin, Geol. Observations, ii. 245. 2. The state of being raised or elevated; exaltation; specifically, exaltation of feeling or spirits. Different elevations of spirit unto God are contained in the name of prayer. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 48. His style was an elegant perspicuity, rich of phrase, but seldom any bold metaphors; and so far from tumid, that it rather wanted a little elevation . Sir H. Wotton. I fancied I could distinguish an elevation of spirit dif ferent from that which is the cause or the effect of simple jollity. Sterne , Sentimental Journey, p. 115. Hence-3. A state of slight inebriation; tipsine . [Colloq.] -4. That which is raised or elevated; an elevated place; a rising ground; a height. His [Milton's] poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery. Nooks and dells, beautiful as fairyland, are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations . Macaulay , Milton. 5. Altitude. (a) In astron., the distance of a heavenly body above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon. (b) In gun., the angle which the axis of the bore makes with the plane of the horizon. (c) In dialing, the angle which the style makes with the substylar line. (d) In topog.: (1) Height; the vertical distance above the sea-level or other surface of reference. (2) The angle at which anything is raised above a horizontal direction. Tak ther the elevacioun of thi pool, and eke the latitude of thy regioun. Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. § 23. 6. In arch., a geometrical representation of a building or part of a building or other structure in vertical projection - that is, of its upright parts.-7. Eccles., the act of raising the eucharistic elements after consecration and before communion, in sign of oblation to God, or in order to show them to the people. With reference to the latter purpose especially, this act is also known as the The act of God and that of os tension to the people aleation before th IMG:content-0322.jpg:[graphic] coincident. The priests were singing, and the organ sounded, And then anon the great cathedral bell, It was the elevation of the Host. Long fellow, Spanish Student, i. 3. 8. In the Rom. Cath. liturgy, a musical composition, vocal or instrumental, performed in connection with the elevation of the host. - Altitude or elevation of the pole. See altitude. - Angle of elevation, in ordnance, the angle which the axis of the gun makes with a line pa ing through its sights and the target.-Elevation bell. See bell1.- Elevation of the panagia. See panagia.- Geometric elevation, a design for the front or side of a building drawn according to the rules of geometry, as opposed to perspective or natural elevation. =Syn. 1. Lifting, lifting up, uplifting, improvement.-2. Eminence, loftine , superiority, refinement. elevator (el'ē-va-tor), n. [= F. élévateur = Sp. elevador = It. elevatore, tensors of the digits, but practically each segment lanx] has its elevator. 3. A surgical instrument used for raising a depre ed or fractured part of the skull. Also called elevatory.-4. In mech., a hoisting apparatus; a lift. (a) A car or cage for lifting and lowering pa engers or freight in a hoistway; in a broad sense, the entire hoisting apparatus, including the shaft or well, the cage, and the motor. See hoisting -engine. (b) A structure for storing grain in bulk, including the grain-lifters and -conveyers. In such elevators the elevator proper, or lifter, is a continuous band of leather studded with metal cups or elevator-buckets, pa ing over a pulley at the top of the building and under a second pulley on the elevator-boot, or the foot of an inclosed tube called the elevator - leg (see leg ). In some instances the elevator-leg is pivoted at the top, so that it may swing clear of the building and reach into the hold of the ve el or car to be emptied. The structure itself consists of a nest of deep bins, into which the grain is directed by spouts from the top of the lifter. The capacity of such elevators is often one and a half million bushels or more. For the horizontal movement of grain in elevators, at to be but three elevators, or ex Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 50. elevator conveyers are used. Lifting elevators are also used in flour-mills, grinding-mills, furnaces, and other works, to handle materials of all kinds in bulk, as sand, ashes, ice, etc. 5. A building containing one or more mechanical elevators, especially a warehouse for the storage of grain. [U. S.] - Auto dynamic elevator. See auto dynamic. Elevator case, a noted case before the United States Supreme Court in 1876 (Munn vs. Illinois, 94 U. S., 113), in which it was decided that, not withstanding the exclusive power of Congre to regulate interstate commerce, a State may, for the public good, regulate the manner in which citizens shall use their prop. erty when devoted by them to a use in which the public have an interest: so called because sustaining the valid ity of a statute limiting grain-elevator tolls-Elevator erected on a boat for lifting, transferring, or storing grain. Such elevators are used to transfer grain from barges to the engine. See engine. - Floating elevator, an holds of ships.- -Hydraulic elevator, an elevator oper ated by some kind of hydraulic apparatus. For short lifts the hydraulic pre is sometimes used, particularly where the weight to be raised is great. Another form, for light loads and moderate heights, is a telescopic tube supporting the car at the upper On with water under pre ure it expands and raises the car; to lower it, the supply of water is cut off, and that in the tube is allowed to escape. The most common form of hydraulic elevator in the United States is that of a car lifted by ropes, operated by a piston in a long cylinder. The rope is connected directly with the piston-rod, which is moved by the admi ion of water under pre ure. In some in stances the cylinder is horizontal and the travel of the pis ton limited, multiplying gear being fitted to the rope. The usual form is an upright cylinder with a very simple form of rope-gearing. - Pneumatic elevator, a hoisting or lifting apparatus worked by compre ed air; a pneumatic hoist. IMG:content-0323.png:[blocks in formation] Channels are almost universally present within the fringing reefs of those islands which have undergone recent elevatory movements. Darwin , Coral Reefs, p. 73. Among these elevatory , and therefore reparative, agents, the most important place must be a igned to earthquakes and volcanoes. Huxley , Physiography, p. 186. II. n.; pl. elevatories (-riz). Same as eleva tor , 3.