GRADATORY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.
a.

Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

3.
n.

A series of steps from a cloister into a church.


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