Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or based on tradition; traditional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Transmitted ortransmissible fromparent tochild , or from older to younger, byoral communication ;traditional .
Etymologies
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Latin tradere, traditum, to transmit, give up: compare French traditif.
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Examples
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Such imitation is on the surface, and does not touch the core of that mysterious combination of traditive with original elements in diction, which Milton and Virgil, alone of poets known to us, have effected.
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
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"This also rests upon the practice apostolical and traditive interpretation of holy Church, and yet cannot be denied that so it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Christendom suspected.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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