elevate

To raise (something) to a higher position.

The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.

The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder

To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,

Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity.

To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?

To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.

For loftie type of honour through the glaunce Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;

To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.

[…] if you encourage a young Beginner, who knows but he may elevate his stile a little,

Elevated, raised aloft.

1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6, The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,

Others apart sat on a Hill retir’d, In thoughts more elevate,