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Webster 1913 Edition
Graduate
Grad′u-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Graduated
p. pr. & vb. n.
Graduating
.] 1.
To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
2.
To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma;
as, he was graduated at Yale College
. 3.
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of;
as, to graduate the heat of an oven
. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.
Browne.
4.
(Chem.)
To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Graduating engine
, a dividing engine. See
Dividing
engine, under Dividing
.Grad′u-ate
,Verb.
I.
1.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off;
as, sandstone which
graduates
into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates
into quartz.2.
(Zool.)
To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
3.
To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
He
graduated
at Oxford. Latham.
He was brought to their bar and asked where he had
graduated
. Macaulay.
Grad′u-ate
,Noun.
1.
One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
2.
A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under
Graduated
. Grad′u-ate
,Adj.
[See ]
Graduate
, Noun.
& Verb.
Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
Beginning with the genus, passing through all the
and subordinate stages.
graduate
and subordinate stages.
Tatham.
Webster 1828 Edition
Graduate
GRAD'UATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To honor with a degree or diploma, in a college or university; to confer a degree on; as, to graduate a master of arts.2.
To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or division; as, to graduate a thermometer. 3. To form shades or nice differences.
4.
To raise to a higher place in the scale of metals.5.
To advance by degrees; to improve. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.
6.
To temper; to prepare. Diseases originating in the atmosphere act exclusively on bodies graduated to receive their impressions.
7.
To mark degrees or differences of any kind; as, to graduate punishment.8.
In chimistry, to bring fluids to a certain degree of consistency.GRAD'UATE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually. Sandstone which graduates into gneiss, Carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.GRAD'UATE
,Noun.