leviare

leviare [LL] 1 to make lighter in weight, to lighten. pondus minoratur et sic substancia rei ~atur [Trevisa: is þe more liзt] Bart. Angl. IV 1. 2 a to alleviate, assuage (mental suffering or moral condition); b (trouble, labour, or sim.). a agniculos a peccatorum prius ponderibus ~atos B. V. Dunst. 38 p. 51; datusque ei episcopatus Rofensis, quo ~aret verecundiam W. Malm. GP I 21; ~abatque spe prophetie omne genus erumne Ib. III 145; nam moriente viro dolor absenti leviatur Nig. Paul. f. 49v. 576.  b musica languores lenit leviatque labores Gir. Symb. 384; pondus non leviabit honor Gower VC V 662; consilium volutabatur ut pecunia bellum ~aretur Ciren. II 142. 3 to relieve (person, animal, of pain, disease, or sim.). quatenus ‥ impensura medicina celerius foret ~andus Herm. Arch. 26 p. 63; Androclus stipem ingentem vestigio leonis herentem revellit ‥ opera cujus ‥ ~atus ‥ leo recubuit et quievit Diceto Chr. I 41.