adj. Transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger, by oral communication; traditional.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of or pertaining to or based on tradition; traditional.
Word Usage
"Such imitation is on the surface, and does not touch the core of that mysterious combination of traditive with original elements in diction, which Milton and Virgil, alone of poets known to us, have effected."