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    [Verb]  | "lev*i*gate" | \ ˈle-və-ˌgāt \


    1: polish, smooth

    2: to grind to a fine smooth powder while in moist condition

    3: to separate (fine powder) from coarser material by suspending in a liquid


    Origin: 1612 ;

     Borrowed from Latin lēvigātus, past participle of lēvigāre "to make smooth," from lēvis "smooth, free from surface irregularity, of even consistency" + -igāre, causative and factitive suffix; lēvis perhaps going back to pre-Latin *lēiw-i-, going back to a u-stem adjective *lēi̯-u-, going back to Indo-European *leh1-u-, whence also, from a thematized *leh1iu̯o-, Greek leîos "smooth" {mat|fumigate|};

    [Adjective]  | "levigated" 


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