Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dictionary of prosody designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin verses.
- noun In music, a work consisting wholly or in great part of exercises of gradually increasing difficulty.
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- noun A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
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- noun A
handbook used as anaid in a difficultart orpractice , specifically, adictionary ofGreek orLatin prosody used as aguide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, to tell the truth, it was my cribbing book, and I always kept it by me when I was writing at Athens, like a gradus, a _gradus ad
Venetia Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Plerique medici uno complexu perstringunt hos duos morbos, quod ex eadem causa oriantur, quodque magnitudine et modo solum distent, et alter gradus ad alterum existat.
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Theologastri (solvant modo) satis superque docti, per omnes honorum gradus evehuntur et ascendunt.
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Qui in literis maximos progressus fecerint maximis honoribus afficiuntur, secundus honoris gradus militibus assignatur, postremi ordinis mechanicis, doctorum hominum judiciis in altiorem locum quisque praesertur, et qui a plurimis approbatur, ampliores in rep. dignitates consequitur.
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Hi gradus sicut nominibus et numero sunt diversi so also so they differ in order and merit;
The secret to prayer; Lectio Divina (For the feast of St. Romuald, June 19) Terry Nelson 2006
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Sic per gradus ad ima tenditur ... and so by steps going on to the worst. previousnext
trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006
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Cuncti gradus ascendentes ad palatij aulas, et aularum cameras, et ad thalamos Camerarum sunt solidi de argento vel auro, sed et omnis stratura pauimentorum in alijs habetur ad similitudinem scacarij, vnam quadratam argenti, alteram auri, laminis valdè crassis, et in ipsis pauimentis, sunt exsculpta gesta, et historiæ diuersæ.
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In cuius obuiationis loco in ascensu procliuo huius montis per multos gradus construxerunt Ecclesiam, ædificium excellens, in honorem eiusdem virginis.
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Ex quo patet respiciendo ad latitudinem coeli, quæ est de polo ad polum, quod itineratio mea fuit per quartum Horizontis spheræ terræ et vltra, per quinque gradus, cum 20. minutis.
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De throni quoque preciositate, quia meæ demonstrationis excellit modum, solummodo dico, singulos ascensionis gradus esse singulorum lapidum preciosorum: Primum onychis, secundum christallai, tertium iaspidis, quartum haematisti, quintum sardij, sextum cornelij.
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