different between gradatim vs seriatim

English

Etymology

Attested in English since 1575–1585: from Latin grad?tim, from gradus (“step”).

Pronunciation

• (Latinate) IPA^(key): /??æ.dæ?ti?m/
• (Anglicised) IPA^(key): /????de?.t?m/

Adverb

gradatim (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) step by step; gradually and methodically.
   • 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, ? 6, pp409–422

     This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gradatim.

Synonyms

• in order, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:sequentially

Related terms

References

Latin

Etymology

From gradus (“step”) +? -?tim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?da?.tim/, [?rä?d?ä?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra?da.tim/, [?r??d???t?im]

Adverb

grad?tim (not comparable)

1. step by step, gradually

Quotations

• 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, p397

  Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.

Descendants

• English: gradatim

References

• gradatim in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gradatim in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seri?s (“row, chain”) + -?tim, adverbial suffix.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?????e?t?m/, /s????e?t?m/

Adverb

seriatim (not comparable)

1. One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an order; sequentially.
   • 1755, W. Massey, Corruptae Latinitatis Index, p. 63:

     Seriatim, I know of no good Authority that this Adverb can claim, though it has got a Place in our Dictionaries, and School-Books.

   • 1829, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, p. 337:

     That pen should go on, lay bare these wounds of our constitution, expose these decisions seriatim, and arouse, as it is able, the attention of the nation to these bold speculators on its patience.

   • 1893, Medical Record, edited by George F. Shrady, volume 43, page 570:

     The author then took up each step seriatim of the technique and after-treatment.

   • 2002, Colin Jones,The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 242:

     Despite the seemingly bright start in North America, French forces failed to stop the English from opening up the Saint Lawrence seaway through Louisbourg, which fell in 1758, and French fortresses along the Ohio river passed seriatim into English hands.

   • 2004, Jon L. Ericson, Notes and Comments on Robert’s Rules, p.87:

     What does “consider seriatim” mean? To consider seriatim means to consider a motion part by part. (Literally, seriatim means in a series, so a motion could be considered by sentence, by paragraph, or by section.)

   • 2006, Daniel Yeager, J. L. Austin and the Law: Exculpation and the Explication of Responsibility, p. 42:

     Children who seriatim decapitate a row of trees or pull the wings off flies hardly do it unintentionally, but they may have no reason or motive […]

Synonyms

• in order, step by step; see also Thesaurus:sequentially

Adjective

seriatim (not comparable)

1. (chiefly law) Point by point; sequential.

   a seriatim review

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:seriatim.

Related terms

• gradatim
• literatim
• serial
• seriate
• seriation
• series
• verbatim

See also

• seriatum

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