gradatim
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of gradatim
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1575–85
Example Sentences
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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
Ad summos Martis dignitates gradatim assurgens, Gloriæ nobilis metæ appetens, In medio cursu, improvisa lethi vi raptus, 28 Septemb.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.
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
Animo in studia severiora converso, fibre gradatim laxabantur.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
Rex igitur filii sui prosperitate gauisus, qui eciam diatim de bono in melius gradatim ascendit, aliquo tempore uite sue metas distulit naturales: iubilus quoque in corde senis conceptus languores seniles plurimum mitigauit.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
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