Obs. Also 4–6 levacion. [ad. L. levātiōn-em, n. of action f. levāre to lighten, raise, levy. Cf. OF. levacion (in sense 1).]

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  1.  Eccl. The lifting up of the Host for the adoration of the people; = ELEVATION 1 c.

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c. 1375.  Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.), 406. And so þo leuacioun þou behalde.

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1434.  E. E. Wills (1882), 101. At the leuacion at the hie masse.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., VI. ccx. 225. In the tyme of the leuacion of ye sacrement, he laught.

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1532.  in Pocock, Rec. Ref. (1870), II. 230. After the levation the deacon turneth to the people.

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1559.  Becon, Display. Popish Mass, Wks. 1563, III. 43 b. The author of your Leuation and liftyng vp ye bred aboue your head was Pope Honorius the third.

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  † 2.  (See quot.) Obs.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Levation, an easing, or diminishing of grief or pain.

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  † 3.  concr. Something levied; a duty, tax. Obs.

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1690.  Child, Disc. Trade (1696), 118. Without paying the same Duties or Levations towards the Company’s charge.

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