Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gradually; step by step; by degrees.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seems that everyone has been hitting here after searching for "gradatim ferociter," the motto of Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space tourism project.
Gradatim ferociter revisited Edward Willett 2007
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Yes, like you I wondered about slipping gradatim ferociter into all my posts!
Gradatim ferociter revisited Edward Willett 2007
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It seems that everyone has been hitting here after searching for "gradatim ferociter," the motto of Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space tourism project.
Archive 2006-12-31 Edward Willett 2006
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Norton boasts of her maternal offices in her earliest infancy; and in her education gradatim.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Plain words, I said, in these cases, were more shocking to their sex than gradatim actions.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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His gradatim, cum pure effluente, pars media expletur, et inde magis magisque crescentibus et dispersis corporis universi superficies tabe ac scabie laborat, quae propinquantibus simul horrorem ac nauseam movent.
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Animo in studia severiora converso, fibre gradatim laxabantur.
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But in private we can take our work gradatim, and take our hearers along with us; and, by our questions, and their answers, we can see how far they understand us, and what we have next to do.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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Sumus tamen solito rariores, quod initium est gradatim desinendi.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Secondly, the motion of the spectrum was not gradatim or by steps, or moving of the feet, but by a kind of gliding, as children upon ice, or as a boat down a river, which punctually answers the description the ancients give of the motion of these Lamures.
Dorothy Durant 1921
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