traditive
English
Etymology
From tradere, traditum (“to transmit, give up”). Compare French traditif.
Adjective
traditive (comparative more traditive, superlative most traditive)
- Transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger, by oral communication; traditional.
- 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying
- it is said there are traditive interprétations , as well as traditive propositions , but these have not much distinct consideration in them
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 460679539:
- Suppose we on things traditive divide.
- 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for traditive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- varied tit