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traditionist|trəˈdɪʃənɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One who accepts, adheres to, or maintains the authority of, tradition.
a. generally.
1666Tillotson Rule Faith iii. x, This fundamental difference about the rule of faith..is fully acknowledged by the traditionists themselves. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Traditionist, one that stands for Tradition. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. viii. (1885) 207 The traditionists..have insisted on eliminating cause and effect from the domain of morals.
b. In Muslim history: see quots. and tradition 6 c.
1759Universal Hist., Mod. II. 42 The great schism between the Sonnites, or Traditionists, that is, those of the Moslems who acknowledge the authority of the Sonna, or collection of moral traditions of the sayings and actions of Mohammed, and the Shiites, or partisans of Ali. 1847Ockley's Saracens 82 note, Those who consider the caliphs preceding Ali as the rightful successors of Mohammed, are called Sonnites or Traditionists. 1864Reader 30 Apr. 549/3 The language once used by the poets of the Desert, and employed by Mohammed and the traditionists.
c. In Judaism: cf. tradition 6 a.
1840Milman Hist. Chr. I. 69 The great schism in the Jewish popular creed, that of the traditionists and anti⁓traditionists.
2. One who gives vogue to, hands on, or records a tradition; a reporter or relater of traditions.
1759Pilkington Rem. Script v. 15 We are not able to ascertain who the Masorites or Traditionists were, that settled the present Standard of the Hebrew Scriptures. 1789Misc. in Ann. Reg. 126/1 Traditionists of grievous tidings and narrators of heart-breaking events. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 1 Priests and poets invented, and traditionists expatiated.
So traˈditionize v., intr. to deal in or give vogue to traditions; to support tradition.
1840G. S. Faber Christ's Disc. Capernaum iv. 101 Ireneus..against the antiscripturally traditionising Gnostics. |