rare. [f. as prec. + -ER1.] 1. = TRADITIONIST 1.
1646. J. Gregory, Notes & Observ., xxv. 122. The Easterne Traditioners meane by this the continuall sadnesse and contristation of heart.
1649. W. Sclater, Comm. Malachy (1650), 48. The most superstitious Traditioners that ever lived.
1711. Strype, Life Abp. Parker, IV. xxviii. 435. In the Church of the Traditioners there is no other Disciplin than that which hath been maintained by the Antichristian Pope of Rome.
1868. Gladstone, Glean. (1879), III. 58. We are all of us traditioners in a degree much greater than we think.
2. = TRADITIONIST 2.
c. 1882. J. Lucas, Studies Nidderdale, 41. Taken … from the dictation of a female traditioner.
