Grad"u*ate (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Graduated (?) p. pr. & vb.
n. Graduating (&?;).] [Cf. F. graduer. See
Graduate, n., Grade.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Dyers advance and graduate their colors with
salts.
Browne.
4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain
degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See
Dividing engine, under Dividing.
Grad"u*ate, v. i. 1.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as,
sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes
graduates into quartz.
2. (Zoöl.) To taper, as the tail
of certain birds.
3. To take a degree in a college or
university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
He graduated at Oxford.
Latham.
He was brought to their bar and asked where he had
graduated.
Macaulay.
Grad"u*ate (?), n. [LL.
graduatus, p. p. of graduare to admit to a degree, fr. L.
gradus grade. See Grade, n.]
1. 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.
2. A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a
measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under
Graduated.
Grad"u*ate, a. [See Graduate,
n. & v.] Arranged by successive steps or
degrees; graduated.
Beginning with the genus, passing through all the
graduate
and subordinate stages.
Tatham.
