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Webster 1913 Edition
Gradatory
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.
(Zool.)
Suitable for walking; – said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.
Grad′a-to-ry
,Noun.
[Cf. LL.
gradatarium
.] (Arch.)
A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gradatory
GRAD'ATORY
,Adj.
GRAD'ATORY
,Noun.