gradual
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈɡɹædʒuəl/, /ˈɡɹædʒwəl/, /ˈɡɹædʒəl/
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɹadʒuəl/, /ˈɡɹadjuəl/, /ˈɡɹadʒəl/
- (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɡɹɛdʒʉɘl/, /ˈɡɹɛdʒɘl/
- (obsolete) IPA: /-uæl/
gradual
- Proceeding or advancing by small, slow, regular steps or degrees
- a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Creatures animate with gradual life / Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.
gradual (plural graduals)
- (Christianity) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
- (Christianity) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
- Italian: graduale
- Italian: graduale
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