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levitation

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Levitation is a 1997 film directed and produced by Scott D. Goldstein. The motion picture starred the Golden Globe -nominated American actress Sarah Paulson , Ernie Hudson , and Benjamin Heflin .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levitation \Lev`i*ta"tion\ (-t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. levis light in weight.] Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. --Paley. The act or process of making buoyant.

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n. the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means movement upward in virtue of lightness [ant: gravitation ] the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means

Usage examples of levitation.

Another revelation buried in the biliteral cipher was of the levitation machine, which Fabyan attempted to build following the simple step-by-step directions.

When through some levitation he again found himself on top of the bed, Hedwig Vogelsang was just entering the room astride a male Bondel who crawled on all fours.

Struggling to reach out, to fend off, to find a place of safety or shelter, Roti twisted in the levitation field that held him, twisted and could find no purchase, no direction for escape.

The gods cultivate levitation, which is a different thing from levity, meaning skyey gravitation, uplift, aspiration expressed in bodily attitude.

But suppose I bring the yogic force into play and am able to overcome the law of gravitation, that is, bring about levitation, then is it not breaking the absolute law ?

Aurelian Sophotech set up a second levitation array above Western Europe, for the Aryan Individualists, and a third over India, where the Uncomposed Cerebelline art-capital Macrostructure is.

Renowned in occult circles throughout Europe, he had achieved successes in every type of mediumistic endeavor, from levitation to clairvoyance, from telepathy and telekinesis to the various forms of spirit evocation and ectoplasmic materialization.

I can spend twenty years as a dematerialization expert, fifteen in polyvalent levitation, a dozen as a symptom-peddler.

He was quite at home reading about levitation and countergeotropic thaumaturgy and his beloved unified field theory, but the prints of Teafortwo had made him realize how little he understood the biomechanics of simple flight.

At just the right moment he tensed his body, focusing into the matrix awareness, felt levitation and the crosscurrent carry him up again.

Surrounding the city, linking the seven corporate complexes with the City Center hub, the magnetic levitation line that Fiddleback had used as a dimensional gate to invade the city stood tall and looked quite benign.

Levitation was a strain, and since they all had hosts it was so much easier to have their hosts move them, when moving was necessary, than to levitate.

The village got a bargain, because in my absence Holmes had cobbled together the equipment for a new act which, together with the levitation frame, my bottomless Moslem cap, and the conversions to the blue cart effected by blacksmith and carpenter back in Kalka, was spectacular enough to make even the least superstitious folk uneasy.

As the chief bent over to assist him to rise, he, too, as if not to be outdone by his superior, gave a remarkable demonstration of levitation.

They had levitation barges then, but not everyone going down the Tethys would have been in one.