raise
verb transitive[This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke 3:8; John 6:40, 44. These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.]
raze.
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To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed. The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up. Acis 12:7.
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To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
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To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
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To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall. I will raise forts against thee. Isaiah 29:3; Amos 9:11.
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To rebuild. They shall raise up the former desolations. Isaiah 61:4.
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To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Joshua 8:29.
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To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
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To enlarge; to amplify.
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To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
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To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
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To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
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To increase in current value. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
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To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult. He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psalm 107:25.
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To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 13:50. AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
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To rouse; to awake; to stir up. They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14:12.
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To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse’ is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
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To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
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To bring into being. God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
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To bring from a state of death to life. He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Romans 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:15-17.