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tralatitious, a.|træləˈtɪʃəs|
Also 9 -icious.
[f. L. trālātīci-us usual, customary, common, metaphorical, tropical (f. trālāt-, ppl. stem of transferre and -itious1).]
1. Characterized by transference; esp. of words or phrases, metaphorical, figurative.
1645Tombes Anthropol. 5, I have planted, Apollo watered; but God gave the increase. Now these things cannot be conceived as tralatitious, for it is said, they were Ministers by whom they believed. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. vii. 138 Too often guilty of what may be termed tralatitious idolatry, when any thing..is loved, or honoured above, or even with God himself. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 253/2 Tralatitious, or Artificiall sentences,..are Borrowed words,..Termed also a Metaphor, Trope, Parable, or Simile. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 63 A secondary and tralatitious Association. 1880R. C. Christie E. Dolet 237, I give..both its primary and its second or tralatitious meaning.
†2. Passed from hand to hand; common, ordinary, vulgar. Obs.
1653Waterhouse Apol. Learning 4 By with-drawing those favours..which invigor'd Learning, and nourished men of deserts and worth,..and by appreciating things and persons more tralatitious and vulgar. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tralatitious, transferred or transposed: of the common sort, ordinary, vulgar.
3. Handed down from generation to generation; traditional; also, repeated by one from another, as a statement.
1795Wythe Decis. Virginia 6 Where an estate of inheritance is acquired not by tralatitious act, as by estoppel, dissesin [etc.]. 1900Margoliouth in Expositor Aug. 136 The subjects..and expressions are ‘tralaticious’, borrowed by one generation from another, in so long a series that it is now impossible to name or locate their originator. 1912Sir W. Ramsay in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 339 Self-satisfied contentment with tralaticious statements, borrowed from good books or teachers..and repeated in book after book.
Hence tralaˈtitiously adv., metaphorically.
1657Gaule Sap. Justif. 91 Adams sin was not tropically and tralatitiously, but even litterally and properly, ours. 1669Holder Elem. Speech 8 Language..properly..is that of the Tongue... Written Language is tralatitiously so called, because it is made to represent to the Eye the same Letters and Words, which are pronounced. |