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Gradate v. t.

To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

(Chem.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.

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Etymology of 'Gradate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gradate" Quotes from Famous Books

... power of gradating delicately; and the gradation is always most skilful which passes from one tint into another very little paler. Draw, therefore, two parallel lines for limits to your work, as in Fig. 2., and try to gradate the shade evenly from white to black, passing over the greatest possible distance, yet so that every part of the band may have visible change in it. The perception of gradation is very deficient in all beginners (not to say, in many artists), ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... see that actions, for the acquisition of which experience is such an obvious necessity, that whenever we see the acquisition we assume the experience, gradate away imperceptibly into actions which would seem, according to all reasonable analogy, to presuppose experience, of which, however, the time and place ...

— Life and Habit • Samuel Butler

Words linked to "Gradate" : gradation, change, arrange, set up