adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a traditional manner; by, in the way of, or according to tradition.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. viii. 31. There are many things concerning the nature of simples, traditionally delivered, and to which I beleeve he gave no assent himselfe. Ibid., VII. xviii. 381. If that were true which is traditionally related by Strabo.

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1764.  Goldsm., Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772), I. 211. The common law, which was traditionally delivered to them from their ancestors.

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1859.  C. Barker, Assoc. Princ., ii. 37. In an age … when private revenge was traditionally, if not legally, sanctioned.

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1901.  Athenæum, 10 Aug., 198/1. The … effigy … of the maid of Normanton who was traditionally eaten by earwigs.

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