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traditive

traditive adjective: transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger generations, by oral communication; traditional.

Adjective

traditive (comparative more traditive, superlative most traditive)

  1. (archaic) Transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger generations, by oral communication; traditional.
    • it is said there are traditive interprétations , as well as traditive propositions , but these have not much distinct consideration in them1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying
    • Suppose we on things traditive divide.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

Forms of traditive

comparativemore traditive
superlativemost traditive

Origin of traditive

From tradere, traditum (“to transmit, give up”). Compare French traditif.

Questions about traditive

What does traditive mean?
Traditive means transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger generations, by oral communication; traditional.
What part of speech is traditive?
Traditive is an adjective.

Words near traditive in the dictionary

  1. traditionizes
  2. traditionizing
  3. traditionless
  4. traditionlessness
  5. traditions
  6. traditive
  7. traditor
  8. traditores
  9. traditors
  10. traditorship
  11. tradlarp

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