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throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

rior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive for…

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. --Far"a*diz`er (#), n.

To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.

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.

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- adv.

1. One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitate.

Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins.

like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. "The gradines of the amphitheeater." Layard.