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Gradatory   Listen
adjective
Gradatory  adj.  
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."
2.
(Zool.) Suitable for walking; said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.





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"Gradatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... occupy the lowest place in the gradatory scale of the human species. They have neither houses nor clothing; they are entirely unacquainted with the arts of agriculture; and even the arms which the several tribes have, to protect themselves from the aggressions of their neighbours, ...
— Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land • William Charles Wentworth


Words linked to "Gradatory" :   gradual, graduated, gradational


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