adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a traditional manner; by, in the way of, or according to tradition.
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.
1764. Goldsm., Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772), I. 211. The common law, which was traditionally delivered to them from their ancestors.
1859. C. Barker, Assoc. Princ., ii. 37. In an age when private revenge was traditionally, if not legally, sanctioned.
1901. Athenæum, 10 Aug., 198/1. The effigy of the maid of Normanton who was traditionally eaten by earwigs.