gradatim

Attested in English since 1575–1585:^[1] from Latin gradātim, from gradus (“step”).

• (Latinate) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæ.dæˈtiːm/
• (Anglicised) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈdeɪ.tɪm/

gradatim (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Step by step; gradually and methodically.^[1]
   • 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422

     This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gradatim.

• in order, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:sequentially

From gradus (“step”) +‎ -ātim.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡraˈdaː.tĩː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡraˈdaː.tim]

gradātim (not comparable)

1. step by step, gradually
   • 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, page 397:

     Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.

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• English: gradatim

• “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers