Word Meanings - EXALT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. Pope. (more info) 1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. Is.

Additional info about word: EXALT

To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. Pope. (more info) 1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. Is. xiv. 13. Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes Pope. 2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. Righteousness exalteth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11. 3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. "Exalt ye the Lord." Ps. xcix. 5. In his own grace he doth exalt himself. Shak. 4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate. They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted. Dryden. 5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. Is. xxxvii. 23. Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. Prior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXALT)

• Aggrandize
• Promote
• dignify
• exalt
• ennoble
• enrich
• advance
• augment
• make great
• magnify
• elevate
• signalize
• Dignify
• invest
• adorn
• promote
• honor
• Ennoble
• Exalt
• ameliorate
• aggrandize
• Glorify
• laud
• praise
• adore
• panegyrize
• extol
• Heighten
• increase
• enhance
• intensify
• color
• vivify
• aggravate
• raise
• exaggerate
• lift up
• amplify

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXALT)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to EXALT)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• SEXTOLET
  A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.