Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gradatory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gradatory \Grad"a*to*ry\, n. [Cf. LL. gradatarium.] (Arch.)
A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gradatory \Grad"a*to*ry\, a. [See {Grade}.]
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. --A. Seward.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of
an animal when adapted for walking on land.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gradatory
adj : slowly and smoothly [syn: {gradational}, {graduated}]
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