a. Now rare. [app. ad. obs. F. traditif, -ive (15th c.) traditional, f. L. trādit-us, pa. pple. of trādĕre to hand over, deliver: see -IVE.]

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  1.  Characterized by, belonging to, or being transmitted by, tradition; traditional, traditionary.

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1611.  Cotgr., Traditif, traditiue, or of tradition.

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1638.  Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. ii. § 89. 85. If there be any Traditiue Interpretation of Scripture, produce it.

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1642.  Jer. Taylor, Episc. (1647), 381. None of the Fathers ever expounded this place of Lay-Elders, so that we have a traditive interpretation of it in prejudice to the pretence of our new office.

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1836.  Keble, Serm., viii. Postscr. (1848), 395. The question lay between traditive and private interpretation.

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1879.  M. Pattison, Milton, xiii. 206. That mysterious combination of traditive with original elements in diction, which Milton and Virgil, alone of poets known to us, have effected.

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  2.  Orally delivered. rare.

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1849.  W. Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disput., 553. Paul in this place mentions both traditive and written teaching, and that justly, considering the time.

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