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To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. [R.] King James I. (1618).

To exert one's self; to work for a certain end. And such were praised who but endeavored well. Pope.

ed to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a patte…

who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm.

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

work which the unit of heat can perform; the mechanical energy which must be expended to raise the temperature of a unit weight of water from 0º C. to 1º C., or from 32º F. to 33º F. The term was introduced by Dr. Mayer of Heilbronn. Its value was found by Joule to be 1390 foot pounds upon the Centigrade, or 772 foot…

Directed upward; raised; uplifted. His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. Pope.

An erector; one who raises or builds.

A muscle which raises any part.

great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth. Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem. Shak.

A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

ethics; medical ethics. The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. I. Taylor.

Bestowing praise of eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic. [R.] -- Eu*log"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast. Buckle.

Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse. -- Eu"lo*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.