traditionary

comparative more traditionary · superlative most traditionary

1. archaicTraditional, of or relating to tradition.

   And, with their old traditionary song, […]

   1874, John Hookham Frere, “From Catullus: Carm. IV”, in The Works of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere, volume II, London: B. M. Pickering, page 383

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   […] they are ready to think it an hereticall way for any man to step out of the beaten trod of their teachers traditionary religion.

   1614, John Robinson, “Preface”, in Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, n.p

   […] as few or no records were extant in those days, and traditionary history stuff’d with fables, it was very easy after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar.

   1776, Thomas Paine, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession”, in Common Sense, Philadelphia, page 13

   The reveries of the Talmud, which are a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivalled in the regions of absurdity.

   1814, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Sermons of the Late Rev. J. S. Buckminster, Boston: J. Eliot, “Sermon 2”, p. 32

   First you hear the bells […], or perhaps the voice of the muleteer, admonishing some tardy or wandering animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary ballad.

   1832, Tales from the Alhambra, Washington Irving, published 1851

   But the literary critic must also resist the notion that the biblical text is a more or less unwitting accretion of traditionary materials […]

   1991, Robert Alter, chapter 1, in The World of Biblical Literature, Basic Books, page 15

plural traditionaries

1. JudaismSomeone who places emphasis on traditions.