levigare

1 lēvigare [CL] , to make smooth; b to plane, polish (wood). c to work (stone). in corporibus ~atis J. Sal. Pol. 408C (v. cyathus a); [castores caudam] planam habent et ~atam Gir. TH I 26; pro supporto lĕvo, pro lēvigo dicito lēvo Serlo Wilt. app. II a L 6; crus vestitum moderata / tenerum pinguedine / ~atur occultata / nervorum compagine / radians candore P. Blois Carm. 8. 6. 58.  b ligna arcae ~ata Bede Tab. 444 (v. bituminare); s1190 portans in manibus tria flagella facta de virgis laevigatis G. Ric. I 146; materiam de lignis ~atis R. Niger Chr. I 2; livigentur [gl.: seient planiez] Neckam Ut. 114; trabibus laevigatis R. Bury Phil. VII 114.  c 1494 lapidibus ~atis opere caementorum Hist. Durh. 153.

2 lĕvigare [LL] 1 to make light in weight, to lighten (also in fig. context). dum subintrat poros largos et amplos calibs non elabitur, sed infixa et ab aliis impulsa, calibem ~at et non cedit, unde calibs non immergitur Quaest. Salern. N 65; cum ‥ aquosa essentia resolvitur, oportet calore fieri partes extenuante et rarefaciente et sic substantiam ~ante Ib. P 81; triplex est causa fortitudinis; calor vivificans, humor nutriens et perdita reparans, spiritus ~ans Ib. W 11; apud quosdam ~abat pondus miraculi cum abstinentia temporis tanti vis dysenterie Ad. Eyns. Hug. V 19 p. 219; facta evacuatione spirituum sit frigiditas naturaliter gravativa, accidentaliter tamen ~at Bart. Angl. IV 2; si aque iste ‥ in tantas minucias possunt dividi et tantum subtiliari et aliqua vi impressi caloris vel alio modo in tantum ~ari ‥ Gros. Hexaem. III 3. 1. 2 to relieve, alleviate: a (med. condition); b (legal or financial burden); c (moral condition); d (person or institution of burden). a si infirmitas [fratris] ~ata fuerit [AS: geleohtud byþ] RegulC 65 (= Ælf. Regul. Mon. 192); paulisper ~ata infirmitate, missam auditura oratorium intravit Turgot Marg. 13; dolor apparuit ~atus, unde emplaustro deposito apparuerunt pedes ‥ sanitati restituti Mir. Montf. 80.  b ut prediorum suorum vectigalia ‥ ~aret W. Malm. GP I 79; quo eorum servitutem in aliqua parte ~amus Croyl. 17; quo excessivam taxationem temporalium ‥ monasterii ‥ ~aret Meaux III 247.  c 796 ut vel poena ~etur vel beatitudo augeatur Alcuin Ep. 105; onus prioratus ‥ ex ejus adventu ~atum vobis perhibuistis Lanfr. Ep. 43 (18); onus amicis postulationibus ~are tentamus Anselm (Ep. 29) III 137; sub istius exspectationis dulcis et incerte solatio tediosa delectant, gravia ~antur, amara dulcescunt P. Blois Ep. 14. 45A; clericos quinquaginta ‥ et tot per tres dies presbyteros missarum celebratores applicate, qui feroces ~ent adversariorum [sc. daemonum] incursus Flor. Hist. I 421.  d expedita, libera, ~ata, alihte, gehyþegode GlP 223; ut ‥ monasteria que prius in Anglia fundaverat a gravi tributo regio ~aret Knighton II 98. 3 to treat lightly or contemptuously; b to make light of, extenuate. externas ‥ indecenter ~antes Gildas EB 66.  b palpo Diogenis contempnens olera / laudat vel levigat tiranni scelera Walt. Wimb. Palpo 90.