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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRADATORY

a.Proceeding step by step.

 

GRADATORY

n.Steps from the cloisters into the church.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GRADATORY

Grad "a *to *ry, a. Etym: [See Grade. ]

 

1. Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual. Could we have seen [Macbeth's ] crimes darkening on their progress. .. could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. A. Seward.

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

 

GRADATORY

Grad "a *to *ry, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. gradatarium.] (Arch. )

 

Defn: A series of steps from a cloister into a church.