See also:

• GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

GRADUAL (Med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; See also:

• GRADUS, or GRADUS AD PARNASSUM (a step to Parnassus)

gradus, step)  , advancing or taking See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place by degrees or step by step; hence used of a slow progress or a See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle declivity or slope, opposed to steep or precipitous . As a substantive, " See also:

• GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

gradual " (Med . See also:

• LAT

Lat. graduale or gradale) is used of a service See also:

• BOOK

book or antiphonal of the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church containing certain antiphons, called " graduals," sung at the service of the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass after the See also:

• READING

reading or singing of the See also:

• EPISTLE

Epistle . This See also:

• ANTIPHON

antiphon received the name either because it was sung on the steps of the See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar or while the See also:

• DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon was mounting the steps of the See also:

• AMBO, or AMBON (Gr. altswv, from avasatvew, to walk up, the reading-desk of early Basilican churches, also called 7r'p'yoc. Originally small and movable, it was afterwards made of large proportions and fixed in one place. In the Byzantine and early Romane

ambo for the reading or singing of the See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel . For the so-called Gradual See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

Psalms, cxx.-cxxxiv., the " songs of degrees," LXX. uihn avd (3aGu'e, see PSALMS, BOOK OF .