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progressional, a.|prəʊˈgrɛʃənəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, or involving progression (in various senses: see prec.).
1570Dee Math. Pref. C j b, The Venetians consideration of waight..by eight descentes progressionall, halfing, from a grayne. 1665J. Gadbury Lond. Deliv. Predicted iv. 21 Venus hath a progressional motion. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 543 To find Numbers whose Remains shall be Arithmetically Progressional. 1800Hull Advertiser 20 Sept. 2/2 Progressional Building Society. 1867Macfarren Harmony iii. (1876) 87 Its progressional treatment. 1883F. A. Walker Pol. Econ. 451 There is, M. Garnier holds, a species of increasing taxation which is rational and discreet, to which he applies the term progressional, which is held within moderate limits.
Hence proˈgressionally adv.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus v. 69 So progressionally..that from five in the foreclaw she [Nature] descendeth unto two in the hindemost. |