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adj. Advancing or progressing by regular or continuous degrees: gradual erosion; a gradual slope.

n. Roman Catholic Church The liturgical book containing the chants for the Mass.

n. Roman Catholic Church A biblical text sung between the Epistle and the Gospel of the Mass.

adj. Proceeding by steps or small 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.

n. An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.

n. A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

adj. Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow

n.

n. An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.

n. A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

n. A series of steps.

Marked by or divided into degrees; proceeding by orderly stages or sequence; graduated.

Moderate in degree of movement or change; proceeding with slow regularity; not abrupt or sudden: as, a gradual rise or fall of the thermometer; gradual improvement in health.

n. A series of steps.

n. In the Rom. Cath, Ch.: An antiphon sung after the reading of the epistle, while the book is moved from the epistle to the gospel side of the altar: so called because it was formerly sung by the subdeacon or epistler and cantor on the step (gradus) of the ambo or pulpit from which the epistle was read.

n. An office-book formerly in use, containing the antiphons called graduals, as well as introits and other antiphons, etc., of the mass. Also called the cantatory or cantatorium.

n. (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass

adj. proceeding in small stages

adj. (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt

"Also, President Bush touting what he calls gradual but important progress in Iraq and taking a swipe at Democratic calls for reducing troop levels, saying that would undermine the entire U.S. mission and adding, and I'm quoting now, "There are no shortcuts in Iraq.""

piecemeal    gradational    in small stages    graduated    gradatory    stepwise    bit-by-bit    step-by-step    easy    gentle   

sudden    abrupt   

antiphon    antiphony   

slow    gentle    gradual emancipation    gradual psalms    insidious   

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rapid    speedy    subsequent    consequent    progressive    partial    inevitable    abrupt    successive    simultaneous