Obs.; also 5–6 agravate. [ad. L. aggravāt-us, pa. pple. of aggravā-re to render heavy or troublesome; f. ad to + gravā-re to make heavy; f. gravis heavy.]
1. Loaded, burdened, weighed down. lit. and fig.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., in Ashmole (1652), v. xxxix. 157. Theyr pursys, wyth pounds so aggravate.
c. 1510. Barclay, Mirr. Good Manners (1570), A ij. Faynt croked age frayle and oblivious Agrauate with yeres.
2. Loaded with the exsecratio gravior; under ecclesiastical censure; excommunicated.
1481. Caxton, Reynard (Arb.), 43. Hyt were grete repref to you, my lord the kyng … that men shold saye ye reysed and accompanyed yourself with a cursyd and person agrauate.
3. Made more serious as an offence; heightened or intensified (in a bad sense).
1548. Hall, Chron. Edward V. (R.). A small displeasure doen to you, either by your owne affection, either by instigacion of euill tongues hath ben sore aggrauate.
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., V. § 20. The occasions of an aggravate crime.
a. 1733. North, Exam., I. ii. 93. Obnoxious for High Treason, or most aggravate Practices of Sedition.
