traditive
English edit
Etymology edit
From tradere, traditum (“to transmit, give up”). Compare French traditif.
Adjective edit
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)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Suppose we on things traditive divide.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)