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Tralatitious

Definition: Tralatitious

Tralatitious

Adjective

1. Having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Tralatitious \Tral`a*ti"tious\, adjective. [Latin expression tralatitius, translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See Tralation.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Tralatitious

Synonym: handed-down (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tralatitious

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Metaphor

Adjective: metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical; ironical; colloquial; tropical.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tralatitious

English words defined with "tralatitious": handed-downTralatitiously, Translatitious. (references)
Etymologies containing "tralatitious": Tralatition, Translatitious. (references)

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Rhyming with "Tralatitious"

Words rhyming with "tralatitious" (pronounced 'Tral`a*ti"tious'): Ablatitious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Addititious, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Adventitious, Ambitious, Arreptitious, Ascititious, Ascriptitious, Bumptious, Captious, Cautious, Cementitious, Cineritious, Collatitious, Combustious, Commentitious, Compunctious, Conceptious, Concupiscentious, Connutritious, Conscientious, Contentious, Deceptious, Defectious, Deglutitious, Deletitious, Fictious, flagitious, fractious, incautious, licentious, Negotious, Novitious, Nutritious, Obreptitious, Ostentatious, Overcautious, Pactitious, Pestilentious, Placentious, Precautious, Precipitious, Pretentious, Profectitious, Propitious, Recrementitious. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tralatitious

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-o-r-s-t-t-t-u"

-2 letters: altostrati.

-3 letters: ritualist, tutorials.

-4 letters: altruist, outstart, rattails, titulars, totalist, tutorial, ultraist.

-5 letters: alastor, altoist, arousal, austral, lariats, latrias, oralist, outlast, outsail, rattail, rialtos, rituals, sautoir, solaria, solatia, starlit, stratal, tailors, titlist, titular, torulas, tourist, troilus, turista.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-o-r-s-t-t-t-u"
 

+4 letters: ultrafiltrations, ultranationalist.

 

+5 letters: autotetraploidies, structuralization, ultranationalists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tralatitious


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 6C 61 74 69 74 69 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    .-..    .-    -    ..    -    ..    ---    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006C 0061 0074 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548467786786758675818785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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