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i. 121. 7. To lift off or away; remove by or as if by lifting; take off, as something put on or imposed: as, to raise a blockade. Once already have you prisoned me, To my great charge, almost my overthrow, And somewhat raisde the debt by that advantage. Heywood , Fair Maid of the Exchange (Works, ed. Pearson, [1874, II. 28). The Sorbonne raised the prohibition it had so long laid upon the works of the Grecian philosopher [Aristotle]. Mind, XII. 257. 8. To cause to rise in sound; lift up the voice in; especially, to utter in high or loud tones. When I raised the psalm, how did my voice quaver for Swift , Mem. of P. P. fear! In sounds now lowly, and now strong, To raise the desultory song. Scott , Marmion, Int., iii. They both, as with one accord, raised a dismal cry. Dickens, Haunted Man. They take their sip of coffee at our expense, and celebrate us in song; a chorus is raisable at the shortest po ible notice, and a chorus is not easily cut off in the middle. C. W. Stoddard , Mashallah, xviii. raisel (rāz), v .; pret. and pp. raised , ppr. rais ing . [Early mod. E. also rayse ; raisen , raysen, reisen , reysen , reis a (= Sw. res a = Dan. reise = Goth. raisjan = AS. ræran , E. rearl ), raise, cause to rise, causal of risa , rise, = AS. risan , E. rise : see risel . Cf. rearl , the native (AS.) form of raise .] I. trans . 1. To lift or bring up bodily in space; move to a higher place; carry or cause to be carried upward or aloft; hoist: as, to raise one's hand or head; to raise ore from a mine; to raise a flag to the masthead. When the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon, We'll forward towards Warwick. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 80. The oxen raise the water by a bucket and rope, without a wheel, and so by driving them from the well the bucket is drawn up. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 61. The high octagon summer house you see yonder is raised on the mast of a ship, given me by an East-India captain. Colman and Garrick , Clandestine Marriage, ii. 2. To make upright or erect; cause to stand by lifting; elevate on a base or support; stand or set up: as, to raise a mast or pole; to raise the frame of a building; to raise a fallen man. He wept tendirly, and reised the kynge be the hande. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 354.