tralatitious


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Adj.1.Tralatitious - having been passed along from generation to generationtralatitious - having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"
handed-down
traditional - consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality"
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TRALATITIOUS A Trivial B Second-hand C Sweet tasting who am I?
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Egypt learnt how to upend tralatitious hand-me-downs.
Hamstrung, humbug and hubris
Obviously, this haunted, shadowy place is a fertile field for tralatitious literary Gothicism, but Poe's Venice is more than a mere theater of sensational horrors.
Poe's oriental Gothic: 'Metzengerstein' (1832), 'The Visionary' (1834), 'Berenice' (1835), The imagination, and authorship's Perils

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