traditionary

English edit

Etymology edit

From tradition +‎ -ary.

Adjective edit

traditionary (comparative more traditionary, superlative most traditionary)

(now rare, archaic) Traditional, of or relating to tradition.
- 1614, John Robinson, “Preface”, in Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, n.p:
  […] they are ready to think it an hereticall way for any man to step out of the beaten trod of their teachers traditionary religion.
- 1776, Thomas Paine, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession”, in Common Sense, Philadelphia, page 13:
  […] as few or no records were extant in those days, and traditionary history stuff’d with fables, it was very easy after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar.
- 1814, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Sermons of the Late Rev. J. S. Buckminster, Boston: J. Eliot, “Sermon 2”, p. 32:
  The reveries of the Talmud, which are a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivalled in the regions of absurdity.
- 1832, Tales from the Alhambra, Washington Irving, published 1851:
  First you hear the bells […], or perhaps the voice of the muleteer, admonishing some tardy or wandering animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary ballad.
- 1874, John Hookham Frere, The Works of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere, Vol. II, London: B. M. Pickering, “From Catullus: Carm. IV”, p. 383:
  And, with their old traditionary song, […]
- 1991, Robert Alter, chapter 1, in The World of Biblical Literature‎^[1], Basic Books, page 15:
  But the literary critic must also resist the notion that the biblical text is a more or less unwitting accretion of traditionary materials […]

Noun edit

traditionary (plural traditionaries)

(Judaism) Someone who places emphasis on traditions.