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The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.

In a degrading manner.

By retrograding; so as to retrograde.

or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawne…

ed, to what wretched state reserved! Milton. He pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay.

The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

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

Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence. Macaulay.

Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading. Chaucer. Counts it scorn to draw Comfort indign from any meaner thing. Trench.

when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song. Dryden.

The act of retrograding, or moving backward.

The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.

An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; a…