Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Metaphorical; not literal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Passed along; handed down; transmitted.
- adjective Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.
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- adjective
transferred - adjective of words or phrases
metaphorical - adjective
passed down ;transmitted from one to another - adjective obsolete
passed around ;common
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having been passed along from generation to generation
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This is because they cater to applicants who do not change to the adoption criteria practical by tralatitious lenders.
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But not to mention that he is so called (we conceive) in reference to the places whence rather than the places where he was delivered, -- for by either birth he may probably be challenged for a Theban, -- in a strict way of speaking, he was a _filius femoris_ by no means in the same sense as he had been before a _filius alvi_, for that latter was but a secondary and tralatitious way of being born, and he but a denizen of the second house of his geniture.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
Dadzo commented on the word tralatitious
That is quite possibly the worst use of the concept of "example" that I've ever seen. It actually subtracted from my understanding of the word. Bravo.
September 8, 2010
yarb commented on the word tralatitious
Ha ha! You're not wrong!
September 8, 2010
bilby commented on the word tralatitious
Can't blame us for the waffle preferred by The Atlantic Monthly circa 1863.
September 8, 2010