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A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.

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(grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used the progressive tense and generally conjugated as to end in -ing.

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Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.

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Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.

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Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.

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a progressive politician

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Liberal.

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Of or relating to progressive education.

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a progressive school

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(of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.

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Advancing in severity.

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progressive paralysis

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(grammar) Continuous.

He will accept it as a stage, of no small importance, in progressive definition; but he will seek to go further.

An inner product may be either progressive or regressive.

The censors, being elected on a general ticket, were always more progressive than the convention, which was chosen on the principle of equal township representation.

Men of Pinckney's type were not in sympathy with the progressive democratic spirit of America, and they began to withdraw from politics after about 1800.

They are among the most progressive of the Lebanon elements.

Come Around Park is progressive and designed for the intermediate rider.

Progressive lenses were actually around since the early 1960s.

It features a progressive workout schedule, perfect for beginners or the out of shape.

This highly organized toning and strengthening program works in progressive stages.

Progressive has become one of the leading car insurance companies in the nation.

In its social life Alexandria is the most progressive and occidental of all the cities of North Africa, with the possible exception of Algiers.

As will be seen from this account, the figure-of-8 or wave theory of stationary and progressive flight has been made the subject of a rigorous experimentum crucis.

Progressive muscle relaxation is a great way to reduce feelings of anxiety and stress.

For example, deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation are a good combination.

It was the first progressive lens, created by Essilor International of France.

Eventually those lenses became available in a progressive (line-free bifocal) style.

No line bifocal reading glasses are sometimes known as progressive bifocals.

Craniosynostosis is a progressive condition that must be treated.

Dancing the foxtrot progressive step means the lead needs to cover ground quickly.

Children need to be taught spelling words in a specific, progressive way that helps them build their skills as they learn.

This progressive approach helps to reinforce basic principles while learning new words.

Only then do we all benefit from this progressive movement.

Take part in the progressive movement of Favorpals.

Aquarians are progressive, forward-thinkers who dislike being told what to do.

A progressive bosu program produces the best results.

Progressive offers a number of different types of coverage to its policyholders.

In some cases, Progressive is the lowest, and in other cases, they are not.

Progressive has been a car insurance provider since 1937.

He proposed the term " mutations " for the minute progressive changes of single characters in definite directions as observed in successive stratigraphic levels.

Even when seen in minute features only he recognized them as constant progressive characters or " chronologic varieties " in 3b --i C D E F G H I -14-21 -I-31 1 - I - 41 contrast with contemporaneous or " geographic varieties," which he considered inconstant and of slight systematic value.

The collective term " mutation," as now employed by palaeontologists, signifies a type modified to a slight degree in one or more of its characters along a progressive or definite line of phyletic development.

In tracing the phylogeny, or ancestral history of organs, palaeontology affords the only absolute criterion on the successive evolution of organs in time as well as of (progressive) evolution in form.

It was early perceived by Huxley, Cope and many others that Cuvier's broad belief in a universal progression was erroneous, and there developed the distinction between " persistent primitive types " (Huxley) and " progressive types."

Among invertebrates similar analogous groups also develop. This is especially marked in retrogressive, though also wellknown in progressive series.

This is not due to environmental conditions solely, because senescent branches of normal progressive groups are found in all geologic horizons, beginning, for gastropods, in the Lower Cambrian.

Brocchi and Daniel Rosa (1899) have developed the hypothesis of the progressive reduction of variability.

Internal causes of extinction are to be found in exaggeration of body size, in the hypertrophy or over-specialization of certain organs, in the irreversibility of evolution, and possibly, although this has not been demonstrated, in a progressive reduction of variability.

Education in Mexico may be said to have enteredl upon a progressive phase.

Among the later viceroys the Conde de Revillagigedo (1789-1794) deserves mention as a progressive ruler who developed commerce and improved administration, and took the first, but very imperfect, census, on which Humboldt based his estimate of the population in 1803 at 5,840,000.

For many years Archdeacon Denison represented the extreme High Tory party not only in politics but in the Church, regarding all "progressive" movements in education or theology as abomination, and vehemently repudiating the "higher criticism" from the days of Essays and Reviews (1860) to those of Lux Mundi (1890).

This being the case, the distribution of the several divisions indicates that progressive submergence of the United States was in progress during the period, and that most of the country was covered by the sea before its close.

The ease with which money was acquired in the war period, the acquiescence of the people, and the influences of extravagance and corruption engendered by the war, opened, at the return of peace, a period of extravagant expenditure that has continued with progressive increase down to the present.

He was the god of Ethiopia and the Thebais which were antagonistic to the progressive north.

It was not till the 18th century that the importance of mummy in all its forms waned, and in some of the least progressive quarters of central Europe it survived even to the middle of the 19th.

Revelation, according to their view, is progressive, and no revelation is final, for, as the human race progresses, a fuller measure of truth, and ordinances more suitable to the age, are vouchsafed.

This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.

Short to the effect that he had seen two living, and that all Yarrell had said was substantially correct, except underrating its progressive powers.

From the close of the Thirty Years' War to the outbreak of the French Revolution the papacy suffered abroad waning political prestige; at home, progressive financial embarrassment accompanied by a series of inadequate governmental reforms; and in the world at large, gradual diminution of reverence for spiritual authority.

Nepotism, however, still left its scars upon the body politic, shown in the progressive decay of agriculture in the Campagna, causing Rome to starve in the midst of fertile but untilled nepotistic latifundia.

Hence the progressive increase which has occurred in the size of converters, until now some of them can treat a 20-ton charge, is not surprising.