Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRA-DI'TION-AL, or TRA-DI'TION-A-RY, a.

1. Delivered orally from father to son; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional evidence; the traditional expositions of the Scriptures. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivaled in the regions of absurdity. Buckminster.
2. Observant of tradition. [Not used.]