استدرجهُ

[is synonym with دَرَّجَهُ in the first of the senses assigned to this latter above. Hence,] Dhu-Rummeh says,

صَرِيفُ المَحَالِ اسْتَدْرَجَتْهَا المَحَاوِرُ

meaning [The creaking of the large sheaves of pulleys] which the pivots made to go [round] slowly (صَيَّرَتْهَا إِلَى أَنْ تَدْرُجَ). (TA.)

See also 2, in two places.

[Also] He caused him to ascend, and to descend, by degrees. (Bd in vii. 181.)

And hence, He (God) drew him near to destruction by little and little: (Bd ibid:) He brought him near to punishment by degrees, by means of respite, and the continuance of health, and the increase of favour: (Idem in lxviii. 44:) He (God) took him (a man) so that he did not reckon upon it; [as though by degrees;] bestowing upon him enjoyments in which he delighted, and on which he placed his reliance, and with which he became familiar so as not to be mindful of death, and then taking him in his most heedless state: such is said to be the meaning in the Qur'an, 7:181 and lxviii. 44: (TA:) or He bestowed upon him new favours as often as he committed new wrong actions, and caused him to forget to ask for forgiveness [thus leading him by degrees to perdition]: and [or as some say, TA] He took him by little and little; [or by degrees;] not suddenly: (K:) or اِسْتَدْرَجَهُمْ signifies He took them by little and little; [one, or a few, at a time;] not [all of them together,] suddenly. (L.) And He, or it, called for, demanded, or required, his destruction: from دَرَجَ “ he died. ” (A, TA.)

It (another's speech, Aboo-Sa'eed, TA) disquieted him so as to make him creep along, or go slowly or softly, upon the ground. (Aboo-Sa'eed, K.)

He deceived him, or beguiled him, (AHeyth, K, TA,) so as to induce him to proceed in an affair from which he had refrained. (AHeyth, TA.)

استدرج النَّاقَةَ He invited the she-camel's young one to follow after she had cast it forth from her belly: so according to the K: [in the CK, for النَّاقَةَ and وَلَدَهَا, we find النّاقةُ and وَلَدُها:] but accord, to the L and other lexicons, استدرجت النَّاقَةُ وَلَدَهَا, i. e. the she-camel invited her young one to follow [her] after she had cast it forth from her belly. (TA.)

استدرجت الرِّيحُ الحَصَا The wind [blew so violently that it] made the pebbles to be as though they were going along of themselves (K, TA) upon the surface of the ground, without its raising them in the air. (TA.) [See also 1.])

اِسْتِدْرَاجٌ also signifies The drawing forth (in Pers. بيرون اوردن) speech, or words, from the mouth. (KL.)

And The rejecting a letter, such as the و in يَعِدُ for يَوْعِدُ. (Msb in article وعد.)