traditive

From tradere, traditum (“to transmit, give up”). Compare French traditif.

traditive (comparative more traditive, superlative most traditive)

1. (archaic) Transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger generations, 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.

• “traditive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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