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traditionate

traditionate verb: to inculcate in a set of traditions.

Verb

traditionate (third-person singular simple present traditionates, present participle traditionating, simple past and past participle traditionated)

  1. (transitive) To inculcate in a set of traditions.
    • Remember to traditionate your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.1878, George D Watt, Journal of discourses. By B. Young [and others].
    • My parents belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and I was traditionated in their doctrines and reareed in their faith, until I was twenty-one years of age, when I first heard the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.1885, Francis A. Brown, A Heroic and Eloquent Plea

Forms of traditionate

third-person singular presenttraditionates
present participletraditionating
past participletraditionated
pasttraditionated

Origin of traditionate

From tradition + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about traditionate

What does traditionate mean?
Traditionate means to inculcate in a set of traditions.
What part of speech is traditionate?
Traditionate is a verb.
What is the past tense of traditionate?
The past tense of traditionate is traditionated.

Words near traditionate in the dictionary

  1. traditionalness
  2. traditionals
  3. traditionaries
  4. traditionarily
  5. traditionary
  6. traditionate
  7. traditionated
  8. traditionates
  9. traditionating
  10. traditionbound
  11. traditioned

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