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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.

One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall.

A believer in traducianism.

The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

Capable of being traduced or calumniated. [R.]

In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.

That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation. [Obs.] Howell.

Transmission from one to another. [Obs.] Traditional communication and traduction of truths. Sir M. Hale.

Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.