traditionary
English
Etymology
Adjective
traditionary (comparative more traditionary, superlative most traditionary)
- (now rare, archaic) Traditional, of or relating to tradition.
- 1614, John Robinson, Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, Preface,[1]
- […] 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, Common Sense, Philadelphia, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession,” p. 13,[2]
- […] 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, Sermon 2, p. 32,[3]
- The reveries of the Talmud, which are a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivalled in the regions of absurdity.
- 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
- 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.
- 1991, Robert Alter, The World of Biblical Literature, Basic Books, Chapter 1, p. 15,[4]
- But the literary critic must also resist the notion that the biblical text is a more or less unwitting accretion of traditionary materials […]
- 1614, John Robinson, Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, Preface,[1]
Noun
traditionary (plural traditionaries)