English

Adjective

elevatory ‎(not comparable)

1. Tending to raise, or having power to elevate.
   • 1912, J. H. Gardiner, The Making of Arguments:

     It is therefore clear that the elevatory forces which gave rise to the mountains operated subsequently to the Cretaceous epoch; and that the mountains themselves are largely made up of the materials deposited in the sea which once occupied their place.

   • 1894, Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses:

     All this is certain, because rocks of cretaceous, or still later, date have shared in the elevatory movements which gave rise to these mountain chains; and may be found perched up, in some cases, many thousand feet high upon their flanks.

   • 1862, Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II:

     Your view of the bottom of Atlantic long sinking with continued volcanic outbursts and local elevations at Madeira, Canaries, etc., grates (but of course I do not know how complex the phenomena are which are thus explained) against my judgment; my general ideas strongly lead me to believe in elevatory movements being widely extended.