Definition of Levigate

1. a. Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.

2. v. t. To make smooth in various senses

3. a. Made smooth, as if polished.

Definition of Levigate

1. Verb. (transitive) To make smooth or polish. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To make into a smooth paste or fine powder. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To separate finer grains from coarser ones by suspension in a liquid. ¹

4. Adjective. Smooth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Levigate

1. to reduce to a fine powder [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Levigate

leverock
levers
leverwood
leverwoods
levesel
levet
levetiracetam
leviable
leviathan
leviathans
levied
levier
leviers
levies
levigable
levigate (current term)
levigated
levigates
levigating
levigation
levigations
levin
leviner
leviners
levins
levirate
levirate marriage
levirate marriages
levirates
leviratic

Literary usage of Levigate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Naturalist in the Transvaal by William Lucas Distant (1892)
"This species is allied to A. variegata, Thunb., from which the white levigate fasciae on the under surface of the abdomen will alone render it very distinct ..."

2. A Monograph of the Ammonites of the "Inferior Oolite Series,": (Stages by Sydney Savory Buckman (1907)
"... decline to levigate stage being rapid ; build of whorls rather stouter, ... to levigate. Note.—The carina becomes less prominent after about 55 mm. ..."

3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The student must have a large flexible pallet- knife, a large stone and muller to levigate the colors, two or three larae pieces of chalk to ab- ~orb the ..."

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