Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Definition of Gradual
Gradual

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.

Related Definitions:
Advancing, After, An, Another, Antiphon, As, Ascended, Ascent, Book, By, Containing, Deacon, Decline, Descent, Epistle, From, Gradual, In, Increase, Knowledge, Mass, Musical, Of, On, One, Or, Proceeding, Progressive, Regularly, Responsory, Series, Service, Slow, State, Step, Sung, The, To, Was, Which, While


Gradual Quotations

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Friedrich Von Schlegel

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
George G. Simpson

Gradual Translations

gradual in Dutch is geleidelijk
gradual in Hungarian is fokozatos
gradual in Norwegian is gradvis
gradual in Spanish is gradual


Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com