levivate

Levivate is a verb that appears occasionally in English texts to mean to cause to levitate or to undergo levitation. Unlike the standard verb levitate, levivate is not widely recognized as part of modern, mainstream usage and is generally considered nonstandard, obsolete, or corpus-specific. In most contemporary contexts, authors would simply use levitate for both intransitive and transitive senses of rising or floating above the ground.

Etymology and linguistic notes about levivate are not well established in leading dictionaries. It resembles a back-formation from the noun or adjective related to levitation, following a common English pattern such as elevate or animate, but there is little durable attestation of stable, widespread usage. Because levitate is the standard term, levivate tends to appear mainly in speculative fiction, pastiche, or as an archaic or experimental form in older texts.

Usage and examples tend to be limited to niche or fictional contexts. For instance, a writer might employ levivate to describe a contrived or ritualized act of levitation, often for stylistic or atmospheric effect: “The spell would levivate the stone above the altar,” though such sentences would commonly be revised to clearer levitate constructions in modern editing.

See also: levitation, levitate, magnetism, anti-gravity, stage magic.