traditionalistic (tradish"onalistik)

[ De Bonald. was the chief of the so-called tradition alistic school, the leading dogma of which was the divine creation of language. Ueberweg, Hist. Philos. (trans.), II. 339. traditionality (tra-dish-o-nal'i-ti), n. [ ditional ditional + -ity .] + Traditional principle or opinion. [Rare.] Many a man doing loud work in the world stands only on some thin traditionality , conventionality. Carlyle . ( Imp . Dict .) traditionally (trā-dish'on-al-i), adv . In a traditional manner; by transmi ion from father to son or from age to age; according to trad i Rel. Knowledge). Anglican theologians, on the other tion; as a tradition; in or by tradition. hand, while acknowledging tradition recorded in ancient writers as of more or le authority in interpretation of Scripture and in questions of church polity and ceremonies, do not coördinate it with Scripture. Why do thy disciples transgre the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. Mat. xv. 2. The authority for this endle , mechanical religionism was the commands or traditions of the Fathers, handed down from the days of the Great Synagogue, but ascribed with pious exaggeration to the Almighty, who, it was said, had delivered them orally to Moses on Mount Sinai. C. Geikie, Life of Christ, II. 205. By apostolical traditions are understood such points of Catholic belief and practice as, not committed to writing in the Holy Scriptures, have come down in an unbroken series of oral delivery, and varied testimony, from the apostolic ages. Faith of Catholics, II. 387. (b) In Mohammedanism , the words and deeds of Mohammed (and to some extent of his comp an- ions), not contained in the Koran, but handed down for a time orally, and then recorded. They are called hadish , 'sayings, or oftener sunna , 'cus- toms,' and they constitute a very large body, and have given rise to an immense literature. By their acceptance or non-acceptance of the traditions as authoritative, the Mohammedans are divided into Sunnites and Shiites . See Sunna , Sunnite . 5. A custom handed down from one age or generation to another and having acquired almost the force of law. The tradition is that a President [in the United States] may be re-elected once, and once only. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 381. 6. In the fine arts , literature , etc., the accumulated experience, advance, or achievement of the past, as handed down by predece ors or de Time-worn rules, that them suffice, Learned from their sires, traditionally wise. Lowell , Aga iz, ii. 1. traditionarily (tra-dish'on-a-ri-li), adv. In a traditionary manner; by tradition. traditionary (tra-dish'on-ā-ri), a. and n. [= F. traditionnaire; as tradition + -ary.] I. a. Same as traditional. Decayed our old traditionary lore. Scott , Vision of Don Roderick, Int., st. 8. II. n.; pl. traditionaries (-riz). One who acknowledges ges the authority of traditions. traditioner (tra-dish'on-er), n. [ tradition + -er1.] A traditionist. traditionist (tra-dish'on-ist), n. [ tradition + -ist .] One who makes or adheres to tradition; a pa er-on of old habits, opinions, etc. As the people are faithful traditionists , repeating the words of their forefathers,.. they are the most certain antiquaries; and their oral knowledge and their ancient observances often elucidate many an archæological obscurity. traditive (trad'i-tiv), a. [ 1. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., I. 172. We cannot disbelieve traditive doctrine, if it be infallibly proved to us that tradition is an infallible guide. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 334. Traditive systems grow up in a course of generations. Gladstone. traditor (trad'i-tor), n.; L. pl. traditores (trad-itō'rēz). [ traducingly (trā-du's ing-li), adv . In a tradu- cing or defamatory manner; slanderously; by way of defamation. Imp. Dict. traductt (trā-dukt'), v . t . [ traductus , pp. of traducere, lead along, derive: see traduce .] To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; propagate. No soul of man from seed traducted is. Dr. H. More, Præ-existency of the Soul, st. 91. traductt (trā-dukt'), n. [L. traductus , pp. of traducere , transfer: see traduce .] That which is transferred or translated; a translation. traduction (trā-duk's hon), n. [F. traduction = Pr. traductio = Sp. traduccion = Pg. traduc- ção = It. traduzione , translation, tio ( n- ), traducere , pp. traductus , lead acro , transfer, propagate: see traduce .] 11. Deriva- tion from one of the same kind; propagation; reproduction; transmi ion; inheritance. If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the le to find A soul so charming from a stock so good; Thy father was transfus'd into thy blood. Dryden, To Mrs. Anne Kill i grew, 1. 23. 2t. Tradition; transmi ion from one to an- other. Evelyn, True Religion, I. 149. 4t. Translation from one language into an- other; a translation. Those translators.. that effect Their word-for-word traductions , where they lose The free grace of their natural dialect, And shame their authors with a forcéd glo . Chapman , Homer, To the Reader, 1. 104. The verbal traduction of him into Latin prose, than which nothing seems more raving. Cowley , Pindaric Odes, Pref. Traduced by ignorant tongues,... let me say 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. 5. Conveyance; transportation; act of trans- Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 72. "the traduction of animals from ferring: as, IMG:content-0700.png:[blocks in formation] The reports and fugues have an agreement with the fig- ures in rhetorick of repetition and traduction . Bacon . traductive (trā-duktiv), a. [L. traductus , pp. of traducere , derive (see traduce ), + -ive .] Deduced or deducible; derivable. [Rare.] I speak not here concerning extrinsical means of deter- min at i on, as traductive interpretations, councils, fathers, popes, and the like. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 328. Trafalgar (tra-fal'gär), n. [So called with ref. to Trafalgar (either to the battle or to the square in London named from it).] An Eng- lish body of type, smaller than canon, equal to the American 44-point or meridian, or four lines of small pica. traffic (trafik), n. [Early mod. E. traffick , traf- fike , traffique ; trafique , F. trafic = Pr. trafec, trafey = Sp. tráfico , tráfago = Pg. tra- fico , trafego = It. traffico (ML. refl. trafficum , trafica ), traffic; origin unknown.] 1. An in- terchange of goods, merchandise, or property of any kind between countries, communities, or individuals; trade; commerce. It hath in solemn synods been decreed... To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. 2. The coming and going of persons or the transportation of goods along a line of travel, as on a road, railway, canal, or steamship route. Traffic during that thirty-six hours was entirely sus- pended. T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 13. Hence-3. The persons or goods, collectively, pa ing or carried along a route or routes.-4. Dealings; intercourse. - 5t. A piece of bus i- ne ; a transaction. The fearful pa age of their death-mark'd love Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage. You'll see a draggled damsel, here and there, From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. fique ; trafiquer = Sp. traficar , trafagar = Pg. traficar , trafeguear = It. traffic are (ML. refl. traficare, trafigare ), traffic; from the noun.] I. in trans . 1. To trade; pa goods and com- modities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; buy and sell wares or commodities; carry on commerce. Despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 131. At twentie yeares they may traffike , buy, sell, and cir- cumuent all they can. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 193. impatient, and men of euill suffering, for that they are importable to serue, and of conuersation verie perillous. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 116, How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death? IMG:content-0701.png:[blocks in formation] Of princes, subjects cannot traffic rights Inherent to the crown. nus Astragalus , among them A. gummifer , A. dens, A. brachycalyx , and A. microcephal us , plants found in the mountains of Asia Minor and neighbor- ing lands. The gum is not a secretion of the saр, but a transformation of the cells of the pith and medul- natural fi ures and through incisions, forming respeс- tively vermicelli and leaf or flake tragacanth. It is without smell, and nearly tastele . Its character is- tic, though not largest, ele- ment is ba or in. In water it swells and disintegrates traganthin (trā-ganthin), n. Same as bas- sorin . tragedian (trā-jedi-an), n. [ tragedyen , tragedien , F. tragédien (cf. It. tragediante ); as tragedy + -an.] 1. A writer of tragedies. A tragedyen-that is to seyn, a makere of ditees that hyhten tragedies. Chaucer, Boëthius, iii. prose 6. Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence. tragedy (traj'e-di), n.; pl. tragedies (-diz). [ tragedie , F. tra- gédie = Sp. Pg. It. tragedia , tragœdio dia , ML. also tragedia , tragedy, a tragedy, lofty style, a great commotion or disturbance, τραγωδία , a tragedy (see def.), serious po poetry, an exag- gerated speech, a melancholy event, (τραγωδός (> L. tragœdus ), a tragic actor or singer, sin lit. a goat-singer,' τράγος , a goat, he-goat (lit. 'nibbler,' ἀοιδός , a singer (cf. ᾠδή, ἀοιδή , a song), α ἀείδειν , ἄδειν , sing (see odel ), and same term i- nation appears in comedy . The orig. reason of the name τραγωδός , 'goat-singer,' is uncertain. (a) In one view, so called because a goat was the prize for the best performance. This would require τρα quire τραγωδός to mean 'singer for a goat,' and would make the name for a distinctive char- acter or act depend on a subsequent fact, name- ly, the goat given at the end of the performance to only one of the performers. (b) In another view, so called because a goat was sacrificed at the singing of the song a goat as the spoiler of IMG:content-0702.jpg:[ocr errors] Tragedie is for to seyn a certeyn storie... Of him that stood in greet prosper i tee, And is yfallen out of heigh degree Into miserie, and endeth wrecchedly. And they ben versifyed comounly Of six feet, which men clepe exametrown. In prose eek ben endyted many oon, Chaucer, Prol. to Monk's Tale, 1. 85. and then act our own part in it. Life is a tragedy , wherein we sit as spectators a while, Swift , To Mrs. Moore, Dec. 27, 1727. Over what tragedy could Lady Jane Grey have wept, over what comedy could she have smiled? Macaulay , Lord Bacon. "The Bride of Lammer moor," which almost goes back to Æschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate, leav- 4. Expre ive of tragedy, death, or sorrow. ing on every reader the impre ion of the highest and pur- est tragedy . Emerson , Walter Scott. 2. [ cap .] Tragedy personified, or the Muse of tragedy. See cut under Melpomene . Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by. But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence, That they who brought me in my master's hate, I live to look upon their tragedy . The day came on that was to do That dreadful tragedy . Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 7. tragically (traj'i-kal-i), adv . 1. In a tragic manner; in a manner befitting tragedy. His [Juvenal's] own genius.. was sharp and eager; and as his provocations were great, he has revenged Dryden, E ay on Satire. Tragelaph inæ (trā-jel-a-fi'nē), n. pl . [NL., Tragelaph us + -inæ.] A former division of an- telopes, represented by the genus Tragelaph us . 2. Mournfully; sorrowfully. tragelaphine (trā-jel'a-fin), a. Pertaining to the Tragelaph inæ , or having their characters. tragelaph us (trā-jel'a-fus), n. [ ἔλαφος , a deer.] 1. In myth ., a fabulous animal, a sym- bol or attribute of Diana. See the quotation. Among the principal of these symbols [of Diana] is the which is sometimes blended into one figure deer, with the goat so as to form a composite fictitious animal called a Trag -elaphus. R. P. Knight , Anc. Art and Myth. (1876), p. 81. 2. [ cap .] [NL. (De Blainville).] In zoöl ., a genus of antelopes, including such as the har- IMG:content-0703.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0704.jpg:[graphic] Types characters are found Shakspere's Lady Macbeth and Ophelia, Rowe's Jane Shore, and Scott's Master of Ravens wood. Tragedy originated among the Greeks in the worship of the god Dionysus or Bacchus. A Greek tragedy consisted of two parts - the dialogue, which corresponded in its general features to the dramatic com- positions of modern times; and the chorus, the tone of which was lyrical rather than dramatical, and which was meant to be sung, while the dialogue was to be recited. named after Hieronymus Bock (Latinized Tra- gus) (1498-1554), a celebrated German bota- nist.) A genus of apetalous plants, of the order Euphorbiaceæ , tribe Crotoneæ , and sub- tribe Plukenetieæ . They are usually climbers with stinging hairs, having monacious flowers in racemes, the staminate commonly above, the pistillate below, the for- mer with three stamens, the latter with imbricated sepals and the styles connate into a column but free at the apex. There are about 50 species, widely scattered through warm countries, extending beyond the tropics to South Africa and to the southern and central United States. They are herb a- ceo us or shrubby perennials, usually either climbing or twining, and with alternate dentate leaves with a cordate and three to five-nerved base. The fruit, composed of three two-valved carpels, is hispid or echinate, and cov- ered with conspicuous stinging hairs. Two species of vine. See cowhage , 2. Virginia are usually erect; T. macrocarpa is a twining tragic (traj'ik), a . and n. [F. tragique = Sp. trágico = Pg. It. tragico, tragic us , Gr. τραγικός , tragedy . Tragic is thus used as the adj. of tragedy , as comic is the adj. of comedy , though etymologi- cally these adjectives belong only to the first elements of the nouns respectively.] I. a. 1. Pertaining or relating to tragedy; of the nature of tragedy: as, a tragic poem; the tragic drama. tragopan ant of the genus Ceriornis, so called from the erectile fleshy horns on the head, suggestive of Crimson Tragopan ( Ceriornis satyra). a faun or satyr; a horned pheasant. They are also called satyrs. One of the best-known is the crimson tragopan, C. satyra.-2. [ caр. ] Same as Ceriornis. Cuvier, 1829. Tragopogon (trag-o-pogon), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), so called with ref. to the long pappus; aceæ and subtribe Scorzonereæ. It is characterized by entire leaves and flower-heads with uniseriate acuminate involucral bracts, the achenes tapering into a long and slender or a very short beak, with plumose pappus, Over 50 species have been described, but not all are now They natives of northern Africa, acceder etic Europe, The therm i a i or perennial herbs, often covered in places with floccose wool. They bear linear alternate clasping leaves which are commonly gra -like, and terminal yellow or bluish flower-heads on long peduncles. For T. porrifolius see salsify, and for T. pratensis see goat's - beard, buck's -beard, and noon-flower. Both species are locally naturalized in the United States. Tragops (tra'gops), n. [NL., lidæ.