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traditor|ˈtrædɪtə(r)|
Also 4 -ore, 5–8 -our.
[a. L. trāditor deliverer, giver up, betrayer, agent-n. from trādĕre: see tradit. With traditour cf. F. traditeur (Froissart). See also traitor.]
†1. A betrayer, traitor. Obs. in general sense.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxii. (Laurentius) 654 Þat man, þat wald tak, & haf Vtheris menis gud with Iniquite, With Iudas traditore suld he be. c1450Maitland Cl. Misc. III. 200 Item ane pharatrum for the sacrament. Item a traditour for the passioun. 1536in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 97 Thomas fitzGerald..who..like a most false disloyal traditour..rebelled against our soveraigne lord the king. 1681in Somers Tracts I. 114 These Traditors of the Gospel have deserted the Plain Paths of Righteousness. 1696Bp. Compton Charge 7 He becomes a Traditor in selling his Duty for a Morsel of Bread. a1711Ken Lett. Wks. (1838) 67 Yt they might not have a Latitudinarian Traditour imposed on them, who would betray y⊇ baptismall faith. 1819Metropolis I. 14 To our sex, he is a very traditore, and has..planted thorns innumerable in the female breast.
2. Ch. Hist. One of those early Christians who in the great persecution under Diocletian, in order to save their own lives, delivered up their sacred books, vessels, etc., or betrayed their fellow-Christians: cf. tradition 2 b.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §7 There were in the Church it selfe Traditors, content to deliuer vp the Bookes of God by composition, to the end their owne liues might bee spared. 1634‘E. Knott’ Charity Maintained i. vi. §17 Whom they falsly affirmed to haue been ordained Bishop by those who were Traditours, or giuers vp of the Bible to the Persecutors to be burned. 1728H. Herbert tr. Fleury's Eccl. Hist. II. 17 The Donatists pretended to prove, that Felix the Bishop of Aptonga was a traditor. 1849W. Fitzgerald tr. Whitaker's Disput. 428 He says..that there was no traditor in that succession from Peter to Anastasius.
attrib.1877J. M. Fuller in Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 886/2 Exhorting him to cleave to those who had left the traditor-church.
†3. One who hands down a tradition. Obs. rare—1.
1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. iii. §44. 153 note, Saving the respect of the Tradition..From whatsoever Traditor it comes.
Hence † tradiˈtorian a. (Obs. rare—1), † traditorous a. (Obs. rare—0, implied in † traditorously adv.), traitorous, treacherous; ˈtraditorship (Ch. Hist.), the action of a traditor.
a1734North Exam. iii. viii. §42 (1740) 615 The good Ignoramus Sherriff..stood up and maintained the City Rights against those *traditorian Court Slaves.
1536in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 97 Who..rebelled against our soveraigne lord the king, intending most falsly and *traditorously to take the said land of Ireland out of his possession.
1877J. M. Fuller in Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 882/1 Not one present could claim to be free from *traditorship. One had thrown the gospels into the fire, another had offered incense to the gods, a third had delivered up small papers, but kept his codices. Ibid. 882/2 The emperor..subjected the alleged traditorship of Felix to a thorough examination (a.d. 313). |