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Definition of Levitate
1. Verb. Cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity. "The magician levitated the woman"
Generic synonyms: Bring Up, Elevate, Get Up, Lift, Raise
Derivative terms: Levitation
2. Verb. Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity. "The guru claimed that he could levitate"
Entails: Arise, Come Up, Go Up, Lift, Move Up, Rise, Uprise
Derivative terms: Levitation
Definition of Levitate
1. v. i. To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.
2. v. t. To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.
Definition of Levitate
1. Verb. (transitive) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Levitate
1. to rise and float in the air [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]
Medical Definition of Levitate
1. To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levitate
Literary usage of Levitate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationes: with a commentary by Marcus Tullius Cicero, George Long (1851)
"... levitate ordo quoque citizens of Roman colonies, and tbe inhabitants of
Municipia, without any respect to their particular nationality. ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[ l levis], lightness: armo- rum, Cs. : sua, 0.—Poet.: nimia levitate ...
Fi g., of speech, smoothness,fluency,facility: nihil levitate ..."
3. Experiments in Psychical Science, Levitation, Contact, and the Direct Voice by William Jackson Crawford (1920)
""Well, I am going to place this box of soft clay under the table and I want you
to levitate the table by this method—only, instead of the bottom end of the ..."
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