ppl. a. [f. LEVIGATE v. + -ED1.]

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  † 1.  Made smooth; polished. Obs.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 29. The outer syde of Radius is rounde, and leuigated.

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1801.  Fuseli, in Lect. Paint., i. (1848), 350. A board, or a levigated plane of wood, metal, stone, or some prepared compound.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. xxx. 250. The eye-cases … surrounded on their inner side by a crescent-shaped lævigated piece.

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1835.  Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., I. vi. 208. The base is concave so as to play upon the levigated centre of the above protuberance.

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  2.  Finely powdered; reduced to a smooth consistency.

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1641.  French, Distill., iii. (1651), 81. Take of this levigated Lime 10 ounces.

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1732.  Arbuthnot, Aliments (1735), 67. The Chyle is white, as consisting of Salt, Oil and Water of our Food, much levigated or smooth.

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1766.  Smollett, Trav., 70. Our porcelain seems to be a partial vitrification of levigated flint and fine pipe clay.

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1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 65. Finely levigated chlorate … of potash.

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1881.  J. Geikie, Prehist. Europe, 161. The finely-levigated material derived from the grinding of glaciers upon their rocky beds.

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