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ὕψ-ωμα , ατος, τό,
A.elevation, height, “οὐ χθὼν οὐρανίοις ὑψώμασι [φθονέει]” Ps.-Phoc.73; “ὕ. τοῦ ἀέρος” Ph.2.408; τὸ ὕ. τῆς ῥινός the bridge of the nose, Gal.18(1).796,806.
2. Astrol., exaltation of a heavenly body, opp. ταπείνωμα, Plu.2.149a, 782d, S.E.M.5.33, Ptol.Tetr. 37.
II. metaph., exaltation, Vett.Val.92.29.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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