unciātim, adv. 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.