"gradatory" meaning in English

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        "A series of steps from a cloister into a church."
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        "(architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church."
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          "text": "Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress […] could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us.",
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        "Proceeding step by step; gradual."
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        "(archaic) Proceeding step by step; gradual."
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        "Suitable for walking, or able to walk (said of an animal, especially a bird, or of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land)."
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        "(zoology) Suitable for walking, or able to walk (said of an animal, especially a bird, or of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land)."
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        "(archaic) Proceeding step by step; gradual."
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        "(zoology) Suitable for walking, or able to walk (said of an animal, especially a bird, or of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land)."
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