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traditionary, a. (n.)|trəˈdɪʃənərɪ|
[f. tradition + -ary1: cf. additionary. (In mod.L. trāditiōnārius.)]
1. = traditional a. 1.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 249 Traditionary impositions. a1677Hale True Relig. i. (1684) 2 By Traditionary Transmission of many important Truths..from Ancestors to their Posterity. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. 396 The Corrupted Remains of some traditionary Revelation. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xviii. (ed. 2) 329 What can be the traditionary knowledge of a chicken hatched in an oven? 1857Livingstone Trav. Introd. 1 Our grandfather was intimately acquainted with all the traditionary legends. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi ii. (1869) 41 The traditionary, as opposed to the merely mythical, period.
b. = traditional a. 1 b.
1835Greswell Parables I. 442, I see the vestiges of a traditionary paradise in this dream of the poets. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 314 Some two hundred yards distant stood the mill, in an Arabian waste, as remote from corn as the traditionary Mill of Buccleugh.
c. Characterized by tradition.
1844Ld. Houghton Palm Leaves, Burial Ground of Scutari, 'Tis well to live and lord o'er those By whom his sires were most renown'd, But his fierce heart finds best repose In this traditionary ground.
†2. Observant of tradition; = traditional a. 2.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage iii. x. 247 They hate the Persians,..more then they doe the Christians: like as the Traditionary Iew doth the Textuarie, and the Papist the Protestant. 1666Tillotson Rule Faith iii. x, Himself and his Traditionary Brethren.
B. n. One who maintains or accepts the authority of tradition; a traditionalist. rare.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The traditionaries are what we more usually call rabbins, and rabbinists, or talmudists... Hillel shone among the traditionaries, and Schammai among the textuaries. 1732Neal Hist. Puritans I. 324 [quotes Strype (see traditioner 1), with traditionaries].
Hence traˈditioˌnarily adv. = traditionally.
1804Mitford Inquiry xv. §5 (ed. 2) 347 The antient Welsh airs, which have been transmitted traditionarily by ignorant harpers. |