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A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.

One who trades; a shopkeeper.

People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

ct of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.

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 system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.

An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

In a traditional manner.

By tradition.

Traditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

One who adheres to tradition.

Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional. [R.] Jer. Taylor. Suppose we on things traditive divide. Dryden.

A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.

To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak.

Slanderous. [R.] Entick.