Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who believes in the supposed spiritualistic phenomena of levitation, or professes to be able to exhibit them.

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  • noun One who, or that which, levitates.

Etymologies

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levitate +‎ -or

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Examples

  • Speaking of transportation, Saint Joseph of Copertino, star eighteenth-century levitator, fasted relentlessly.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Kildy, who never fell for anything, not even that devic levitator.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Speaking of transportation, Saint Joseph of Copertino, star eighteenth-century levitator, fasted relentlessly.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Speaking of transportation, Saint Joseph of Copertino, star eighteenth-century levitator, fasted relentlessly.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Activating the levitator, she changed the bed and sponge-bathed the patient while he hung suspended in the field, the atoms of his body temporarily magnetized.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Activating the levitator, she changed the bed and sponge-bathed the patient while he hung suspended in the field, the atoms of his body temporarily magnetized.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • He suffered a concussion just before we found the pirate vessel—he actually fell off a levitator pad while he was putting up decorations for a birthday party.

    INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

  • Activating the levitator, she changed the bed and sponge-bathed the patient while he hung suspended in the field, the atoms of his body temporarily magnetized.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • “By falling off that levitator,” Riker said softly and with some admiration, “that man may have saved a couple of thousand lives.”

    INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

  • Slowly and with care, Geordi and one of his staff had taken the big bottle back up to engineering on a levitator pad, and people had looked out their doors at it, as it passed, with very dubious expressions indeed.

    INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

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