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tralatitious

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective tralatitious has 1 sense

  • tralatitious(s = adj.all) handed-down - having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"

CIDE DICTIONARY

tralatitiousa. [L. tralatitius, translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See Tralation.].
  •  Passed along; handed down; transmitted.  [1913 Webster]
    "Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.  Stackhouse.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

tralatitious

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.

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