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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Grad·a·to·ry a.
 1. Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
    Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us.   --A. Seward.
 2. Zool. Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Grad·a·to·ry, n.  Arch. A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 gradatory
      adj : slowly and smoothly [syn: gradational, graduated]