(adverb) : uncĭātim, id.
* By twelfths, by ounces. *
* Lit.: (axungia) datur et phthisicis unciatim, cum vini veteris hemina decocta, donec tres unciae e toto restent,Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 139.—*
* Transf., by a little at a time, little by little: quod ille unciatim vix de demenso suo ... comparsit miser,Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 9.