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Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. -- n.

Same as Lepadoid.

A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.

A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.

A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

t 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.

A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.