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{Gradual}, n.] Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. [1913 Webster] Creatures animate with gradual life
Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.
--Milton.
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Gradual Grad"u*al, n. [LL. graduale a gradual (in sense 1),
fr. L. gradus step: cf. F. graduel. See {Grade}, and cf.
{Grail} a gradual.]
1. (R. C. Ch.)
(a) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the
Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon
ascended the steps.
(b) A service book containing the musical portions of the
Mass.
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2. A series of steps. Obs. --Dryden.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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