Gradual is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRADUAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the part of mass between epistle and gospel
• (in the Western Christian Church) a response sung or recited between the Epistle and Gospel in the Mass.
• a book of plainsong for the Mass.
• 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.
• An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
• A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
• A series of steps.
• (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
• antiphon or group of several antiphons
ADJECTIVE:
• happening by degrees
• taking place or progressing slowly or by degrees
• (of a slope) not steep or abrupt.
• occurring or moving in small stages
• proceeding in small stages
• (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a hymn sung in alternate parts

Words related to GRADUAL

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Words that contain GRADUAL

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How to use GRADUAL in a sentence

• Rhode Island and Connecticut, gradual abolition, 1784.
• I believe that we are not yet fully aware how much we owe to the Jewish mind, in the gradual emancipation of the human intellect.
• The gradual decay of the port was due to the retiring of the sea in the fifteenth century, which rendered the harbour useless.
• From this time, the recovery of Venetia, though slow, was gradual.
• There is first, the gradual passing of the household industries out of the home.
• As soon as Andre had finished his sketch we descended by a slope as gradual as that by which we had come up, and made our way toward the west.
• The diminution being very gradual is scarcely perceptible, and appears to be the effect of distance.
• This popularity was connected with his gradual transformation into a god of the dead.
• A gradual subsidence of the swelling occurs and in the average instance, this completely resolves within six or eight weeks.
• By this bank, it was evident, that the land was here encroaching upon the sea, and it was easy to trace its gradual formation.
• How are competent persons to be selected and qualified? The change will be gradual, and it is to be made in the public opinion as well as in the character of teachers and schools.
• In San Ramon as many as fifteen can fight indiscriminately, and the vanquished are weeded out by gradual process.
• The average size of the room is larger than in the communal building, and there is a gradual increase in size of rooms from north to south.
• Out of that anarchy the gradual restoration of order by the people themselves, into democracy.
• The work was so gradual that it is not yet, by any means, accomplished.
• We won the strike, and then by gradual voluntary action gave them the pay and hours they asked for.
• Ellis in the year 1797, prayed His Majesty to consult with the colonial legislatures to take such measures, as might conduce to the gradual abolition of the African Slave-trade.
• He was in favor of gradual emancipation, which would prepare both master and slave for a moral adaptation to the new conditions of freedom.
• He saw a gradual decline of the true spirit of chivalry.
• King Christian had lately proclaimed a gradual emancipation of all slaves in his West Indian colonies.
• Jefferson Randolph, for the gradual abolition of slavery was discussed in that body.

Similar words containing GRADU without suffix al

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