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ˈlevigated, ppl. a.
[f. levigate v. + -ed1.]
†1. Made smooth; polished. Obs.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 29 The outer syde of Radius is rounde, and leuigated. 1801Fuseli in Lect. Paint. i. (1848) 350 A board, or a levigated plane of wood, metal, stone, or some prepared compound. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxx. 250 The eye-cases..surrounded on their inner side by a crescent-shaped lævigated piece. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. vi. 208 The base is concave so as to play upon the levigated centre of the above protuberance.
2. Finely powdered; reduced to a smooth consistency.
1641French Distill. iii. (1651) 81 Take of this levigated Lime 10 ounces. 1732Arbuthnot Aliments (1735) 67 The Chyle is white, as consisting of Salt, Oil and Water of our Food, much levigated or smooth. 1766Smollett Trav. 70 Our porcelain seems to be a partial vitrification of levigated flint and fine pipe clay. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 65 Finely levigated chlorate..of potash. 1881J. Geikie Preh. Europe 161 The finely-levigated material derived from the grinding of glaciers. |