GRADUAL

gradual. Gradual, a. step by step, regular; n. a set of steps

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Grad″u‐al″ (?); a. [[Cf; F. graduel. See Grade, and cf. 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. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.