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Definition of By small degrees
1. Adverb. By a short distance. "They moved it by inches"
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Small Degrees
Literary usage of By small degrees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... even as the whole material world is not altogether: but the abolished parts
are departed by small degrees, and the parts yet to come, do by the same ..."
2. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"... even as the whole material world is not all together; but the abolished parts
are departed by small degrees, and the parts yet to come do by the same ..."
3. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed inglese by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"... to take away by small degrees, softly, and cautiously, the parts of a thing
from that thing itself. ..."
4. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introduction and Notes by William Caxton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt (1910)
"... even as the whole material world is not altogether: but the abolished parts
are departed by small degrees, and the parts yet to come, do by the same ..."
5. The Readable Dictionary: Or, Topical and Synonymic Lexicon: Containing by John Williams (1860)
"Corrosion, the act of eating or wearing away by small degrees. quantities, after
the manner of a beast (From swill, liquid food given to ewine. ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"The lateral angles of this edge ossify by small degrees, but always continue
embodied with the rest of the cartilage, so that they cannot even be considered ..."
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