levigable

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English

Adjective

levigable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being levigated. (any sense)
    • 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, Or a Discourse of Forest-trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions:
      Besides the Perrys, dri'd and preserv'd Fruit, useful is the Pear-Tree (and best the most barren, or Pig-taile, as they call it, which is the Wild Pyraster) for its excellent colour'd Timber, hard and levigable (seldom or not ordinarily worm-eaten) especially for Stools, Tables , Chairs, Pistol-Stocks, Instrument-Maker, Cabinets, and very many works of the Joyner, (who can make it easily to counterfeit Ebony) and Sculptor, either for flat, or emboss'd-Works, and to Engrave upon, because the Grain intercepts not the Tool.
    • 1823, J.J. Conybeare, “Article VI: Some Account of Maier's Symbola Aureae Mensae Duodecim Nationum”, in Annals of Philosophy, volume 22, page 429:
      Can he mean that there is but one substance which fulfils these two conditions of being levigable, and fusible without evaporation?
    • 1850, Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day:
      And how when the Critic had done his best, And the Pearl of Price, at reason's test, Lay dust and ashes levigable On the Professor's lecture-table;
    • 2020, Moncure D. Conway, The Mythology of the Devil:
      Hereditary conscience, passing through this fierce crucible, lay levigable before Goethe, to be swept away into dust-hole or moulded into the image of reason.

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