vn. & s. 1. A raising, lifting, elevating. 2. An increasing the height of a thing. 3. A taking away or removing, removal, an annulling or suppressing. 4. A promoting, advancing in rank; promotion, advancement. 5. A carrying an adversary or a suit to a high functionary. 6. A tracing back a genealogy. 7. (Ar. gram.) A putting a noun into the nominative case, or a verb aorist into the indicative mood; or, a making a particle movent with the uturu vowel to its last consonant. 8. (arith.) A reducing a fraction.