EXALT', egzolt'. Low L. exalto ex and altus, high.
1. To raise high to elevate.
2. To elevate in power, wealth, rank or dignity as, to exalt one to a throne, to the chief magistracy, to a bishopric.
3. To elevate with joy or confidence as, to be exalted with success or victory. We now use elate.
4. To raise with pride to make undue pretensions to power, rank or estimation to elevate too high or above others.
He that exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke 14 . Matthew 23
5. To elevate in estimation and praise to magnify to praise to extol.
He is my father's God, and I will exalt him. Exodus 15 .
6. To raise, as the voice to raise in opposition. 2 Kings 19 .
7. To elevate in diction or sentiment to make sublime as exalted strains.
8. In physics, to elevate to purify to subtilize to refine as, to exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies.