the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Raduate
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
(2):
(n.) To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
(3):
(n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
(4):
(n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
(5):
(v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
(6):
(v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
(7):
(v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
(8):
(n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
(9):
(n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
(10):
(n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Raduate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/raduate.html. 1828.
