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traditionally, adv.|trəˈdɪʃənəlɪ| [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In a traditional manner; by, in the way of, or according to tradition.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 31 There are many things concerning the nature of simples, traditionally delivered, and to which I beleeve he gave no assent himselfe. Ibid. vii. xviii. 381 If that were true which is traditionally related by Strabo. 1764Goldsm. Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 211 The common law, which was traditionally delivered to them from their ancestors. 1859C. Barker Assoc. Princ. ii. 37 In an age..when private revenge was traditionally, if not legally, sanctioned. 1901Athenæum 10 Aug. 198/1 The..effigy..of the maid of Normanton who was traditionally eaten by earwigs. |