Meanings
adjectivetraditive (comparative more traditive, superlative most traditive)
comparative more traditive · superlative most traditive
- archaicTransmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger generations, by oral communication; traditional.
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 […], →OCLC1 more example
it is said there are traditive interprétations , as well as traditive propositions , but these have not much distinct consideration in them
1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying
Origin
From tradere, traditum (“to transmit, give up”). Compare French traditif.
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