Found 2 items, similar to gradatory.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: gradatory gradatory adj : slowly and smoothly [syn: gradational, graduated]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Gradatory Gradatory \Grad"a*to*ry\, a. [See Grade.] 1. Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual. [1913 Webster] Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. --A. Seward. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land. [1913 Webster] Gradatory \Grad"a*to*ry\, n. [Cf. LL. gradatarium.] (Arch.) A series of steps from a cloister into a church. [1913 Webster]