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The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.

The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.

Elevation; a change of form in the lunar orbit, by which its eccentricity is sometimes increased and sometimes diminished. Evection of heat, its diffusion by the heated particles of a fluid being translated.

In astron., an inequality of the moon's motion in its orbit, due to the attraction of the sun; the libration of the moon.

n. [Latin] Carrying away;—lifting up; extolling; exaltation;—an inequality of the moon’s motion in its orbit.