English

Adverb

gradatim ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete) step by step; gradually and methodically.^[1]
   • 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422

     This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:gradatim.

Related terms

References

1. 1 2 Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1·1)

Latin

Etymology

From gradus ‎(“step”) +‎ -ātim.

Adverb

gradātim ‎(not comparable)

1. step by step, gradually

Descendants

• English: gradatim

Quotations

• 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, p397

  Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.

References

• gradatim in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gradatim in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers