traditionistn.

1584 J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. viii. 456 As Cabalists among the Iewes do call them scripture-men (by way of reproch) who cast off traditions and cleaue to scriptures only: so doo traditionists among you reproch vs with the same terme.

1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm 49 'Tis plaine, All Papists are Traditionists.

1666 J. Tillotson Rule of Faith iii. x. 285 This fundamental difference about the Rule of Faith..is fully acknowledged by the Traditionists themselves.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Traditionist, one that stands for Tradition.

1749 J. Brekell Divine Oracles ii. 89 This argument of the Traditionist..will appear to be a mere jugle.

1844 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 307/1 Traditionists do not follow out their own principles.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table viii, in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 236/1 The traditionists..have insisted on eliminating cause and effect from the domain of morals.

1908 W. S. Whale French Novelists of To-day 127 He is a traditionist, who would efface the work of two revolutions.

1972 Times 2 Nov. (On the Air Suppl.) p. xii/5 It was the real sound for pop fans, but traditionists reeled.

2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 1 d A few traditionists who insist on celebrating [Valentine's Day] on the 14th.

1708 T. Taylor tr. J. Basnage Hist. Jews ii. vii. 102/2 The Traditionists [Fr. Traditionnaires]..were again restor'd to the Council.

1730 R. Millar Hist. Church under Old Test. v. 517 The Hatred between them [sc. the Caraites] and the Rabbinists or Traditionists is implacable.

1840 H. H. Milman Hist. Christianity I. 69 The great schism in the Jewish popular creed, that of the traditionists and antitraditionists.

1870 W. H. Rule Hist. Karaite Jews vi. 54 As to sacred observances,..his error, as a traditionist, was not peculiar to himself alone.

1904 Salvation Oct. 294 The new sect..adopted for itself the telling appellation of Karaites, i.e., Readers, Scripturists, as opposed to the Traditionists.

1973 L. Nemoy tr. Ibn Kammuna in Jewish Q. Rev. 63 231 The authority of the traditionists, whose great learning and piety..appear to us to be overwhelming.

1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens II. 155 There is a Tradition that goes under the Name of one Hasan a Basorian, of great Authority among the Traditionists.

1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. 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.

1848 Ockley's Saracens 82 (note) Those who consider the caliphs preceding Ali as the rightful successors of Mohammed, are called Sonnites or Traditionists.

1903 Encycl. Americana (new ed.) X. at Mohammedanism The Sunnites' claim to be the Traditionists par excellence.

1759 M. Pilkington Remarks Script. v. 15 We are not able to ascertain who the Masorites or Traditionists were, that settled the present Standard of the Hebrew Scriptures.

1792 tr. in Ann. Reg. 1789 Misc. Ess. 126/1 Traditionists of grievous tidings, and narrators of heart-breaking events.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 2 Priests and poets invented, and traditionists expatiated.

1915 W. Hough Hopi Indians 261 Not long ago, according to Hopi traditionists, some clans withdrew from Tusayan and rebuilt cliff-houses.

1963 Numen 10 53 A pupil learning a written text by heart is on principle to be distinguished from a traditionist transmitting the unpublished words of his teacher..by means of oral tradition.

2008 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 50 488 Traditionists and historians within the community address the question of the social origins of these early disciples indirectly.

1842 Biogr. Dict. (Soc. Diffusion Useful Knowl.) I. ii. 527/2 Ibn Khallekán..distinguishes Ahmed by the title of..the Eastern traditionist, owing to the immense reputation he acquired as a lawyer and a recorder of sacred traditions.

1864 Reader 30 Apr. 549/3 The language once used by the poets of the Desert, and employed by Mohammed and the traditionists.

1921 Bull. John Rylands Libr. 6 525 The first division comprises traditions of the Prophet in which the authorities of six traditionists are in agreement.

1979 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 42 24 The Muslim traditionists are a little puzzled as to what the exact name of each of the sons was.

2002 J. A. Bill & J. A. Williams Rom. Catholics & Shiʿi Muslims 40 Sunni authorities generally regard him [sc. Muhammad al-Baqir] as a reliable traditionist.