traditive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of traditive
First recorded in 1605–15; tradit(ion) + -ive
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This also rests upon the practice apostolical and traditive interpretation of holy Church, and yet cannot be denied that so it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Christendom suspected.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
Such imitation is on the surface, and does not touch the core of that mysterious combination of traditive with original elements in diction, which Milton and Virgil, alone of poets known to us, have effected.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
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