1. (a.) 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.
2. (a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
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Christian, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, ancestral, approved, authentic, authoritative, autobiographical, being done, biographical, canonical, chronologic, comme il faut, common, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, firm, fixed, folk, formal, generally accepted, habitual, hagiographic, hallowed, handed down, heroic, historic, historied, historiographic, hoary, household, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established, long-standing, martyrologic, meet, mouth, mythological, normal, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, old, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, proper, received, recognized, regular, regulation, right, ritual, rooted, routine, scriptural, seemly, set, sound, spoken, standard, stock, textual, time-honored, traditionalistic, tried and true, TRUE, true-blue, understood, unwritten, usual, venerable, verbal, well-known, widespread, wonted, worshipful
