levigate

Mark first the rationale of the thing: Hear logic rivel and levigate the deed.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

It is when combined with levigated talc to form the paint of the toilette that the red becomes most serviceable.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

This scar, in some months or years, is liable to wear away, and become transparent, without the assistance of any polishing powder, as of very finely levigated glass, as some have recommended.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Let the solution stand for several days; then add 8 ounces of putrid cheese broken up with 3 lbs. of skimmed and curdled sour milk and 3 lbs. of levigated chalk.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

Moreover much of the finest levigated earth is washed completely away from the castings.

From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin

The phosphide obtained by heating cupric phosphate, Cu2H2P2O8, in hydrogen, when mixed with potassium and cuprous sulphides or levigated coke, constitutes “Abel’s fuse,” which is used as a primer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

This process consists in finely pulverizing the soil or rock, and levigating it in vessels of water.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various