gradatim
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of gradatim
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1575–85
Example Sentences
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Sumus tamen solito rariores, quod initium est gradatim desinendi.
From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius
Plain words, I said, in these cases, were more shocking to their sex than gradatim actions.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel
Her nurse Norton boasts of her maternal offices in her earliest infancy; and in her education gradatim.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel
Alae mediocres, rotundatae; remige 1ma brevissima; 2da et 6ta aequalibus; 3tia et 4ta fere aequalibus; longissimis; 5ta his paulo breviori: remigum 3tiae ad 6tam inclusam pogoniis externis in medio gradatim productis.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker
Si �grotas sume potum, Vis ut valeas tolle totum, Cape potum hunc paratum, Sanus eris,—est probatum; Si in corpore aut in mente Dolebant in quavis dente; O Pampine! tibi statim Sume potum hinc gradatim.
From Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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