traditionary en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Latin trāns Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin trādō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin trāditiōbor. Old French tradicionbor. Middle English tradicioun English tradition Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English traditionary From tradition + -ary.
Meanings
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(archaic) Traditional, of or relating to tradition.
[…] 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.
1776, Thomas Paine, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession”, in Common Sense, Philadelphia, page 13:And, with their old traditionary song, […]
1874, John Hookham Frere, “From Catullus: Carm. IV”, in The Works of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere, volume II, London: B. M. Pickering, page 383:But the literary critic must also resist the notion that the biblical text is a more or less unwitting accretion of traditionary materials […]
1991, Robert Alter, chapter 1, in The World of Biblical Literature, Basic Books, page 15:[…] they are ready to think it an hereticall way for any man to step out of the beaten trod of their teachers traditionary religion.
1614, John Robinson, “Preface”, in Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, n.p: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.
1832, Tales from the Alhambra, Washington Irving, published 1851:The reveries of the Talmud, which are a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivalled in the regions of absurdity.
1814, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Sermons of the Late Rev. J. S. Buckminster, Boston: J. Eliot, “Sermon 2”, p. 32
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| more traditionary | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most traditionary | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |