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Gradatory

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Proceeding step by step; gradual. archaic

    "Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress […] could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us."

  2. 2
    Suitable for walking, or able to walk (said of an animal, especially a bird, or of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land).

    "Under this name we group together a large number of very similar forms; or if dissimilar, forms connected by gradatory specimens"

Adjective
  1. 1
    taking place by degrees wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A series of steps from a cloister into a church.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compare Latin gradatarium.

Etymology 2

Compare Latin gradatarium.

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