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tralatitious


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tralatitious  \Tral`a*ti"tious\,  a.  [L.  tralatitius, 
  translatitius,  tralaticius  translaticius  See  {Tralation}.] 
  1.  Passed  along  handed  down  transmitted. 
 
  Among  biblical  critics  a  tralatitious  interpretation 
  is  one  received  by  expositor  from  expositor.  --W. 
  Withington 
 
  2.  Metaphorical;  figurative;  not  literal.  --Stackhouse. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tralatitious 
  adj  :  having  been  passed  along  from  generation  to  generation; 
  "among  Biblical  critics  a  tralatitious  interpretation 
  is  one  received  by  expositor  from  expositor"  [syn:  {handed-down}] 




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