TO BRING FROM A LOWER PLACE TO A HIGHER; TO LIFE UP; TO RAISE; AS, TO ELEVATE A WEIGHT, A FLAGSTAFF ETC…

TO RAISE TO A HIGHER STATION; TO PROMOTE; AS, TO ELEVATE TO AN OFFICE. OR TO A HIGH SOCIAL POSITION.

TO EXALT; TO ENNOBLE; TO DIGNIFY; AS, TO ELEVATE THE MIND OF CHARACTER.

TO RAISE TO A HIGHER PITCH. OR TO A GREATER DEGREE OF LOUDNESS; SAID OF SOUNDS; AS TO ELEVATE THE VOICE.

Phil 3:12-14

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”