[UN-2 6 a.] trans. To make uneven; to divest of levelness.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xi. [The] place … was so plaine, as there was scarcely any bush, or hillock, either to unlevell, or shadowe it.
1624. Quarles, Div. Poems, Job xix. 10. His Lunatick affections doe vnleuell, What Heauen created by iust Waight and Measure.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., To the Fever, 8. Come thou not neere that, Filme so finely spred, Where no one piece is yet unlevelled.
1703. [R. Neve], City & C. Purchaser, 189. There are as many places that seem to be unlevel’d, as there are level’d.
1834. Southey, Doctor, xlvi. (1862), 109. In 1723 the church floor and church-yard, which had both been unlevelled by Death’s levelling course, were levelled anew.
