'Elate' definitions:

Definition of 'elate'

verb

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate] [ant: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down]

From: GCIDE

Elate \E*late"\, a. [L. elatus elevated, fig., elated, proud (the figure, perh., being borrowed from a prancing horse); e out + latus (used as p. p. of ferre to bear), for tlatus, and akin to E. tolerate. See Tolerate, and cf. Extol.] [1913 Webster]
1. Lifted up; raised; elevated.
With upper lip elate. --Fenton. [1913 Webster]
And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. --Sir W. Jones. [1913 Webster]
2. Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant. [1913 Webster]
O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. --Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
Syn: Puffed up; lofty; proud; haughty; exalted; inspirited; transported; delighted; overjoyed. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Elate \E*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elating.]
1. To raise; to exalt. [R.] [1913 Webster]
By the potent sun elated high. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
2. To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. [1913 Webster]
Foolishly elated by spiritual pride. --Warburton. [1913 Webster]
You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). [1913 Webster]