Traditional
[trə'dɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [trə'dɪʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) consisting of or derived from tradition; 'traditional history'; 'traditional morality' .
(adj.) pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; 'the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished' .
Checker: Sinclair--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
(a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
Editor: Lorna
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Orally transmitted (from age to age).
Editor: Seth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Transmitted, oral, unwritten
ANT:Written, documentary
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Examples
- France is the traditional ally and friend of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To-day traditional Christianity has weakened in the face of man's interest in the conquest of this world. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Muhammad's appeal, for example, was to the traditional chivalry and underlying monotheistic feelings of the intelligent Arabs of his time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Papacy seemed to be balancing its traditional reliance upon the faithful Habsburgs against its quarrel with republican France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The members assumed without criticism the traditional dogma of Christianity that sex in any manifestation outside of marriage is sinful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On one hand, it has screened and protected traditional studies and methods of teaching from intelligent criticism and needed revisions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I managed to work my passage to Athens, and arrived there without even the traditional penny. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Jesus was to him the Easter lamb, that traditional human victim without spot or blemish who haunts all the religions of the dark white peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Apart from those who feared Roosevelt for selfish reasons, his enemies were men who loved an orderly adherence to traditional methods. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All educational reformers, as we have had occasion to remark, are given to attacking the passivity of traditional education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The King was the traditional head of the army, and the habit of obedience in soldiers is to the King. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- With Hindu life is bound up its traditional duty of hospitality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The traditional Chinese social system recognized four main classes below the priest-emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We entered the great Latin Convent which is built over the traditional dwelling-place of the Holy Family. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The _Houyhnhnms_ have no letters, and consequently their knowledge is all traditional. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The first known reference to the game with any traditional or historical accuracy occurs in Abbe McGeoghegan’s History of Ireland. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It does, however, need a foreign office of the traditional type for its full development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The work of Bryan has been to express a certain feeling of unrest--to embody it in the traditional language of prophecy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was the traditional maidenly interrogation, and he felt ashamed of himself for finding it singularly childish. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Politically Islam was not an advance, but a retrogression from the traditional freedoms and customary laws of the desert. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He resumed the traditional thrust of Peter the Great towards Constantinople. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing failure of their traditional customs and beliefs to regulate life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For the rest, the Western world displays itself as traditional and conservative as China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The neglect of the deep-seated active and motor factors of experience is a fatal defect of the traditional empirical philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But he had adopted the ivory sceptre and throne, which were the traditional insignia of the ancient kings of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Can we find a better than the traditional sort? Plato. The Republic.
- Not merely manual training specifically so called but many traditional kindergarten exercises have erred here. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the traditional schemes of education, subject matter means so much material to be studied. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Plato, like the old painters, retains the traditional form, and like them he has also a vision of a city in the clouds. Plato. The Republic.
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