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levigable

levigable adjective: capable of being levigated. (any sense).

Adjective

levigable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being levigated. (any sense)
    • 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...1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, Or a Discourse of Forest-trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions
    • Can he mean that there is but one substance which fulfils these two conditions of being levigable, and fusible without evaporation?1823, J.J. Conybeare, “Article VI: Some Account of Maier's Symbola Aureae Mensae Duodecim Nationum”, in Annals of Philosophy, volume 22, page 429

Examples of levigable in a sentence

  • 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;1850, Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day:
  • 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.2020, Moncure D. Conway, The Mythology of the Devil:

Questions about levigable

What does levigable mean?
Levigable means capable of being levigated. (any sense).
How do you use levigable in a sentence?
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;
What part of speech is levigable?
Levigable is an adjective.

Words near levigable in the dictionary

  1. levier
  2. leviers
  3. levies
  4. levies en masse
  5. levies in mass
  6. levigable
  7. levigate
  8. levigated
  9. levigates
  10. levigating
  11. levigation

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