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Definition of Gradating
1. gradate [v] - See also: gradate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gradating
Literary usage of Gradating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth (1908)
"The second gradating contrary ways, doubling the other's variety, ... The third
species gradating doubly contrary ways, is thereby still more pleasing in ..."
2. The Works of William Hogarth: (including the 'Analysis of Beauty by Thomas Clerk, William Hogarth (1812)
"The second gradating contrary ways, doubling the other's variety, is consequently
twice as pleasing, ... The third species gradating doubly contrary ways, ..."
3. The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas by William Hogarth (1810)
"But it will be proper to premise, that when it is quite shut, and flat or parallel
to the eye and window, . it will only have a penciling shade gradating ..."
4. Chromatography; Or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments: And of Their Powers by George Field (1841)
"This principle consists in the blending and gradating by mixture, while we avoid
the compounding of contrasting colours; ie the colours must be kept ..."
5. Practical hints on light and shade in painting by John Burnet (1880)
"... in the centre of the picture gradating to the extremities with a border ...
gradating to the sides of his canvass by means of buildings, ships, &c., ..."
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