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graduated, ppl. a.|ˈgrædjuːeɪtɪd|
[f. graduate v. + -ed.]
In senses of the vb.
†1. ? Formed by or consisting of steps. Obs.
1655H. L'Estrange Chas. I, 137 The Communion Table he injoyned to be placed at the East end, upon a graduated advance of ground.
2. That has received or holds a university degree; in later use chiefly, that has a medical degree, fully qualified. Now rare.
1665Needham Medela Medicinæ 212 Call men what you will, because they are neither graduated nor incorporated. 1678Quacks Academy 5 Graduated Doctors, and Book-learned Physicians. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) II. 131 The king's Laureate was nothing more than ‘a graduated rhetorician’. 1784Cowper Task ii. 739 Ignorance..With parrot tongue performed the scholar's part, Proceeding soon a graduated dunce. 1818Art Preserv. Feet Pref. 6 Such complaints appear more worthy the notice of the graduated and licensed operator. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xiii, ‘By my faith, Captain MacTurk’ said the Doctor ‘you speak as if you were graduated!’ 1833Syd. Smith in Mem. (1855) II. 346 Scarlet-fever awes me and is above my aim. I leave it to the professional and graduated homicides.
b. transf. That has passed through a course of training; qualified.
1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 252 The whole aim of regularly graduated thieves is, to be able to lead a riotous life of eating, drinking, and profligate sociality with each other.
3. Marked with lines to indicate degrees, grades, or quantities.
1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 434 In vain he spreads the graduated chart. 1774M. Mackenzie Maritime Surv. v. 61 Make the Needle level with the graduated Circle in the Box. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 12 The equal length of the screws..being ascertained by means of a graduated measure. 1858Greener Gunnery 41 When the powder explodes the spring is forced forward, and moves an index round a graduated circle. 1882Minchin Unipl. Kinemat. 94 The graduated roller may be fixed anywhere on an arm attached rigidly to AB.
4. Arranged in grades or gradations; arranged according to the degree of difficulty or importance; advancing or proceeding by degrees.
1678Newton Let. R. Boyle in Boyle's Wks. (1772) I. p. cxii, Now the space between the limits EFGH and IKLM, I shall call the space of the æther's graduated rarity. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 343 Put equal parts of these two salts into two retorts, and expose them to a strong, equal, graduated fire. 1837H. H. Wilson Sánkhya Káriká 107 The formation of ideas is, in all cases, a graduated process. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 426 The military organization of society required a graduated uniform. 1861Mill Utilit. v. 87 Graduated taxation, taking a higher percentage from those who have more to spare. 1868Peard Water-Farm. vi. 71 A natural fall of the ground would enable the manager to arrange them in a graduated series. 1896How & Leigh Hist. Rome 309 The old policy of graduated privilege and regular promotion fell into oblivion. Mod. Graduated readings in Chinese.
b. Ornith. (See quot.)
1842Brande Dict. Sci., etc., Graduated, in Ornithology, when the quill-feathers of the tail increase in length by regular gradations. Hence1860in Worcester; and in later Dicts. |