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seriatim en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /sɛɹɪˈeɪtɪm/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sɪəɹɪˈeɪtɪm/ (UK)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seriēs (“row, chain”) + -ātim, adverbial suffix.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Point by point; sequential.
    • The argument will also be the first test of the court’s announced hybrid system for oral argument, involving both the usual free-for-all questioning that was missing from the telephone arguments, and one round of seriatim questioning at the end of each arguing attorney’s presentation. 2021 October 4, Mark Walsh, “A View from the courtroom: In-person arguments come out of storage”, in SCOTUSblog:
    • a seriatim review

Relateds

verbatim · gradatim · seriatum · literatim · seriate · seriation · serial · series

Translations (2)

hi सिलसिलेवार (Translations) · hi क्रमानुकूल (Translations)

seriatim en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /sɛɹɪˈeɪtɪm/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sɪəɹɪˈeɪtɪm/ (UK)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seriēs (“row, chain”) + -ātim, adverbial suffix.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an order; sequentially.
    • Despite the seemingly bright start in North America, French forces failed to stop the English from opening up the Saint Lawrence seaway through Louisbourg, which fell in 1758, and French fortresses along the Ohio river passed seriatim into English hands. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 242:
    • That pen should go on, lay bare these wounds of our constitution, expose these decisions seriatim, and arouse, as it is able, the attention of the nation to these bold speculators on its patience. 1829, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, page 337:
    • The author then took up each step seriatim of the technique and after-treatment. 1893, “Medical Record”, in George F. Shrady, editor, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 43, page 570:
    • Children who seriatim decapitate a row of trees or pull the wings off flies hardly do it unintentionally, but they may have no reason or motive […] 2006, Daniel Yeager, J. L. Austin and the Law: Exculpation and the Explication of Responsibility, page 42:

Synonyms

step by step · in order

Translations (1)

hi क्रमशः (Translations)