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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Raise \Raise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised}; p. pr & vb n. {Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See {Rise}, and cf {Rear} to raise.] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as to raise a stone or weight. Hence figuratively: a To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like to increase the value or estimation of to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. b To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. c To elevate in degree according to some scale; as to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room 2. To cause to rise up or assume an erect position or posture; to set up to make upright; as to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: a To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. b To rouse to action to stir up to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [AE]neas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. c To bring up from the lower world; to call up as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. 3. To cause to arise, grow up or come into being or to appear; to give to to originate, produce, cause effect, or the like Hence specifically: a To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts to build up to erect; as to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxxix 3. b To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as to raise money, troops, and the like ``To raise up a rent.'' --Chaucer. c To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. ``He raised sheep.'' ``He raised wheat where none grew before.'' --Johnson's Dict. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Raising \Rais"ing\, n. 1. The act of lifting, setting up elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as to help at a raising. [U.S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: raising adj : increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate" n 1: the event of something being raised [syn: {elevation}, {lift}] 2: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child [syn: {rearing}, {nurture}] 3: raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: {breeding}, {bringing up}, {fostering}, {fosterage}, {nurture}, {nurturing}, {rearing}, {upbringing}]
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