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Definition of Graduses
1. gradus [n] - See also: gradus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graduses
Literary usage of Graduses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1847)
"... some compile lexicons, digging into the depths of etymology; others, graduses
leading to the heights of Parnassus; some write on the belles lettres; ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... sleeps on mouldering bed of graduses and grammars; his brain embalmed in juice
of the cuttle-fish, and his head encircled with the pseudo-critic's crown ..."
3. Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake (1879)
"... is • thrown like a pauper's pall over all your early lore; instead of sweet
knowledge, vile, monkish, doggerel grammars, and graduses, dictionaries, ..."
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