gradatim

[ grey-dey-tim ]

adverb

1. (in prescriptions) by degrees; gradually.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gradatim¹

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1575–85

Example Sentences

Al longissim, subarcuat, remigibus prioribus longissimis, cteris gradatim brevioribus.

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Sumus tamen solito rariores, quod initium est gradatim desinendi.

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Her nurse Norton boasts of her maternal offices in her earliest infancy; and in her education gradatim.

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Plain words, I said, in these cases, were more shocking to their sex than gradatim actions.

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Ad hujus, quod super essentiam est, Unius intelligentiam gradatim ascendit.

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