The corpus record — Latin

elevatio

elevatio · f

A lifting up

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Where it lives

De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

ēlĕvātĭo — Lewis & Short

ēlĕvātĭo, ōnis, f.elevo.

I A lifting up, raising (late Lat.): manuum, Vulg. Psa. 140, 2 al.—

II Trop.

1 Gram. t. t., the elevation: vocis (= a)/rsis, opp. depositio), Mart. Cap. 9, § 974; Isid. 1, 16, 21.—

2 Rhet. t. t., a lessening, disparaging; a species of irony, Quint. 9, 2, 50; Mart. Cap. 5, § 525.

In the wild

elevationes Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.50
elevationem Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 41.p2

Where it came from

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