Obs. rare–1. [n. of action (see -ATION) from assumed vb. aggravidize, f. L. ad to + gravid-us ‘heavy, weighted’ + -IZE. In loc. cit., perh. an error for aggrandisation, though as likely to be an actual formation by the author.] Increase of weight or gravity, aggravation.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., 404. They … opposed, accused, traduced, persecuted him many wayes, unto death … no great evidences of any pitifull, mercifull, compassionate disposition, which received an aggravidisation in continuing the same to his name, memory, and succession.
