1894 Brewer’s / L / Lifted up
Put to death; to raise on a cross or gibbet.
“When ye have lifted up the Son of Man then shall ye know that I am He.”—John viii. 28.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.