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Provided by the compucert exalt \ig-ZOLT\, verb:
- To praise, glorify, or honor.
- To heighten or intensify.
- To raise in rank, character, or status; as, "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser."
Exalt comes from Latin exalto, exaltare, to raise high, from ex-, out of (but here simply used intensively; that is, to give emphasis) + altus, high.
- a word used to express absolute astonishment! (from JUNO)
Juno: I'm pregnant.
Leah: Oh my God! Phuket Thailand!
TriviaHow many men were on base in the famous poem "Casey at the Bat"? Bonus: What was the score?
- Two men were on base (second and third); and “the score stood four to two.”
- Ferdinand Magellan: set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe; of the five ships that set out, only one — the Victoria — returned to Spain (1519)
- Son of Sam: New York serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested (1977)
- Yuri Malenchenko: Ukrainian cosmonaut became the first person to be married in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas (2003)
- Ian Anderson (61): musician, Jethro Tull; singers Jimmy Dean and Eddie Fisher (both 80), Patti Austin (58) and Jon Farriss (47) share this birth date
- Phoolan Devi (1963-2001): gang leader who became a member of India's Parliament
- Antonio Banderas (48): actor, The Mask of Zorro; also, actors Kate O'Mara (69), Daniel Hugh Kelly (56), Rosanna Arquette (49), Justin Theroux (37) and Angie Harmon (36)
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