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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1602
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Traditive, adj. [17th c. Eng. traditiue (1611), F. traditif.] According to tradition. — 1602 Colville Paraenese 65.
Dionysius … testifies the baptism of childring to be traditiue and not of the text of scriptur
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