different between dignify vs elate

English

Etymology

From Old French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare, from dignus (“worthy”) + ficare (in comp.), facere (“to make”). See deign and fact.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??n?fa?/

Verb

dignify (third-person singular simple present dignifies, present participle dignifying, simple past and past participle dignified)

1. (transitive) To invest with dignity or honour.
   • 1616, Ben Jonson, Inviting A Friend To Supper

     Your worth will dignify our feast.

2. (transitive) To give distinction to.
3. (transitive) To exalt in rank.
4. (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.

   I will not dignify that comment with a response.

Synonyms

• exalt
• elevate
• prefer
• advance
• honor
• illustrate
• adorn
• ennoble

Antonyms

• demean
• humiliate
• mortify
• shame

Related terms

• dignity
• dignification
• dignified

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ?l?tus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”) (short form of ex) + fer? (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

elate (third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated)

1. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

Translations

Adjective

elate

1. elated; exultant
   • 1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 28

     Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.

2. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
   • c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield

     with upper lip elate

   • a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus

     And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.

Related terms

• elated
• elation
• efferent

Anagrams

• Atlee, Teela, alete, telae

Estonian

Verb

elate

1. second-person plural present indicative of elama

Latin

Etymology 1

From ?l?tus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”), short form of ex, + fer? (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??la?.te?/, [e????ä?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?la.te/, [??l??t??]

Adverb

?l?t? (comparative ?l?tus or ?l?tius, no superlative)

1. loftily, proudly
   • c. 177, Gellius: Noctes Atticae, Book 9, Chapter 15, Verse 4

     Introit adulescens et praefatur arrogantius et elatius, quam aetati eius decebat, ac deinde iubet exponi controversias.

     The young fellow entered the room, made some preliminary remarks in a more arrogant and presumptuous style than became his years, and then asked that subjects for debate be given him.

Related terms

• ?l?ti?
• ?l?tus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (elát?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.la.te?/, [????ät?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.la.te/, [???l?t??]

Noun

elat? f (genitive elat?s); first declension

1. A sort of fir
2. The leaf of the palm bud

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

References

• elate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Adjective

elate

1. Alternative form of elat