gradusn.

/ˈɡreɪdəs/

Etymology: Shortened < Gradus ad Parnassum, ‘A step to Parnassus’, the Latin title of a dictionary of prosody.

The Gradus ad Parnassum, ‘a step to Parnassus’, a dictionary of prosody formerly used in British public schools. Hence: any later work of similar plan and object. Also in extended use.The earliest edition of the ‘Gradus’ in the British Museum is that of Cologne 1687; there was a London edition in 1691. The book was intended as an aid in Latin versification, both by giving the ‘quantities’ of words and by suggesting poetical epithets and phraseology.

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alveary1574

gradusa1764

Webster1833

unabridged1860

OED1898

Oxford1927

Fowler1931

a1764 R. Lloyd Poetry Professors 6 What reams of paper will be spoil'd! What graduses be daily soil'd By inky fingers, greasy thumbs, Hunting the word that never comes!

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 69 The arguments you have to encounter—together with whatsoever other appropriate epithets and phrases..are furnished by the Courtier's and Lawyer's Gradus.

1827 J. B. Mozley Lett. (1885) 8 I should like to have a Greek Gradus, if there is such a book [Written æt. 14].

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 286 The three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.

attributive.1887 Athenæum 25 June 831/1 A fair descriptive passage is spoilt by a commonplace or gradus epithet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	gradus
释义	gradusn. /ˈɡreɪdəs/ Etymology: Shortened < Gradus ad Parnassum, ‘A step to Parnassus’, the Latin title of a dictionary of prosody. The Gradus ad Parnassum, ‘a step to Parnassus’, a dictionary of prosody formerly used in British public schools. Hence: any later work of similar plan and object. Also in extended use.The earliest edition of the ‘Gradus’ in the British Museum is that of Cologne 1687; there was a London edition in 1691. The book was intended as an aid in Latin versification, both by giving the ‘quantities’ of words and by suggesting poetical epithets and phraseology. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific dictionaries alveary1574 gradusa1764 Webster1833 unabridged1860 OED1898 Oxford1927 Fowler1931 a1764 R. Lloyd Poetry Professors 6 What reams of paper will be spoil'd! What graduses be daily soil'd By inky fingers, greasy thumbs, Hunting the word that never comes! 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 69 The arguments you have to encounter—together with whatsoever other appropriate epithets and phrases..are furnished by the Courtier's and Lawyer's Gradus. 1827 J. B. Mozley Lett. (1885) 8 I should like to have a Greek Gradus, if there is such a book [Written æt. 14]. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 286 The three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus. attributive.1887 Athenæum 25 June 831/1 A fair descriptive passage is spoilt by a commonplace or gradus epithet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.a1764
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