Definition of "elate"

elate

/ɪˈleɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated
1. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
  Quotations
  That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
  1749, The Universal Magazine, volume 4, page 321
2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.
adjective
1. Elated; exultant.
  Quotations
  Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
  1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, canto III
  Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
  1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28
2. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
  Quotations
  with upper lip elate
  c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield
  And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
  a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus