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and (he one preceding are both natives of Coromandel, in 
moist vallies. 
Propagation and Culture. —Virginian spiderwort multi¬ 
plies so fast by its roots, as also from the seeds, if permitted 
to fall, that it must be yearly reduced, to keep it within 
bounds. The best time to remove and part the roots is in 
the autumn. The other species from the East and West 
Indies, require the heat of a stove, in which some of them 
may be abundantly increased both by seeds and offsets. 
Some of the species are annual, and can be propagated only 
by seeds; but the greater part is perennial. Tradescantia 
formosa, being a native of the Cape of Good Hope, re¬ 
quires only the protection of the dry stove. 
TRA'DESFOLK, s. People employed in trades.—By 
his advice victuallers and tradesfolk would soon get all the 
money of the kingdom into their hands. Swift. 
TRA'DESMAN, s. A shopkeeper. A merchant is called 
a trader , but not a tradesman. 
Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire ; 
The next a tradesman , meek and much a liar. Pope. 
TRADITION, s. [traditio , Lat.] The act or practice of 
delivering accounts from mouth to mouth without written 
memorials; communication from age to age.—To learn it 
we have tradition ; namely, that so we believe, because both 
we from our predecessors, and they from theirs, have so 
received. Hooker. —Any thing delivered orally from age to 
age.—It is well known to have been a general tradition 
amongst these nations, that the world was made and had a 
beginning. Wilkins. —Traditional practice; old custom. 
Throw away respect. 
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty. Shakspcare. 
The act of giving up; delivery: a latinisin. —A deed 
takes effect only from the tradition or delivery. Blackstone. 
TRADITIONAL, ad). Delivered by tradition; descend¬ 
ing by oral communication ; transmitted by the foregoing to 
the following age.—If there be any difference in natural 
parts, it should seem the advantage lies on the side of chil¬ 
dren born from wealthy parents, the same traditional sloth 
and luxury which render their body weak, perhaps refining 
their spirits. Swift. —Observant of traditions, or idle rites. 
Not used, nor proper. 
God forbid 
We should infringe the holy privilege 
Of sanctuary! 
You are too senseless obstinate, my lord ; 
Too ceremonious and traditional. Shakspcare. 
TRADITIONALLY, adv. By transmission from age to 
age.—There is another channel wherein this doctrine is tra¬ 
ditionally derived from Saint John, namely, from the clergy 
of Asia. Burnet. —From tradition without evidence of 
written memorials.—Itcrosseth the proverb, and Rome might 
well be built in a day, if that were true which is traditionally 
related by Strabo, that the great cities Anchiale and Tarsus 
were built bv Sardanapalus both in one day. Brown. 
TRADITIONARY, adj. Delivered by tradition; trans¬ 
missive; handed down from age to age.—Oral tradition is 
more uncertain, especially if we may take that to be the 
traditionary sense of texts of Scripture. Tillotson. 
TRADI'TIONER, or Tradi'tionist, s. One who ad¬ 
heres to tradition.—We are not able to ascertain who the 
Masorifes or traditionists were, that settled the present stan¬ 
dard of the Hebrew Scriptures. Pilkington. 
TRA'DITIVE, adj. [trado, Lat.] Transmitted or trans¬ 
missible from age to age. 
Suppose we on things traditivc divide. 
And both appeal to Scripture to decide. Brydcn. 
TRADITORES, a name given in the first ages of the 
church to such Christians as, in times of persecution, to avoid 
death and martyrdom, delivered up the sacred writings to the 
persecutors. 
To TRADE'CE, v. a. [Iraduco, Lat.] To censure; to 
condemn; to represent as blameable; to calumniate; to 
decry.—From that preface he took his hint; though he had 
the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but instead 
of it to traduce mein libel. Bryden. —To propagate; to 
increase or continue by deriving one from another,—Some 
believe the soul is made by God, some by angels, and some 
by the generant: whether it be immediately created or tra¬ 
duced hath been the great ball of contention to the latter 
ages. Glanville. 
TRADU'CEMENT, s. Censure; obloquy. 
Rome must know 
The value of her own : ’twere a concealment 
Worse than a theft, no less than a traduccment. 
To hide your doings. S/takspeare. 
TRADU'CER, s. A false censurer; a calumniator.— 
St. Austin tells the traduccrs, that ’tis for want of a serious 
and solid casuistry, that they plunge themselves into such 
gross misrepresentations. Biblioth. Bibl. —One who de¬ 
rives. 
TRADU'CIBLE, adj. Such as may be derived.—Though 
oral tradition might be a competent discoverer of the original 
of a kingdom, yet such a tradition were incompetent without 
written monuments to derive to us the original laws, because 
they are of a complex nature, and therefore not orally tradu- 
cible to so great a distance of ages. Hale. 
To TRADU'CT, v. a. [ traduco, traductum, Lat.] To 
derive. Not now in use. —Consider our nature, as it is now 
depraved in us, and by the corrupt conduct of our sinful pa¬ 
rents iraducted unto us. Fotherby. 
TRADU'CTION, s. [traductio, Lat.] Derivation from 
one of the same kind ; propagation.—The patrons of tra¬ 
duction accuse their adversaries of affronting the attributes 
of God; and the asserters of creation impeach them of vio¬ 
lence to the nature of things. Glanville. —Tradition; trans¬ 
mission from one to another,—Touching traditional commu¬ 
nication and traduction of truths connatural and engraven, 
I do not doubt but many of them have had the help of that 
derivation. Hale. —Conveyance; act of transferring.—Since 
America is divided on every side by considerable seas, and 
no passage known by land, the traduction of brutes could 
only be by shipping ; though this was a method used for the 
traduction of useful cattle from hence thither, yet it is not 
credible that bears and lions should have so much care used, 
for their transportation. Hale. —Transition.—The reports 
and fugues have an agreement with the figures in rhetoric of 
repetition and traduction. Bacon. 
TRADU'CTIVE, adj. Derivable; deducible.—It will 
consist only of a number of instances of similar customs of 
a striking nature, which all would judge imitations and tra - 
ductivc, if that system be true. Warburton. 
TRADEWATER, a river of the United States, in Ohio, 
which has its rise in Christian county, and running a north¬ 
west course, falls into the Ohio 200 miles below the mouth 
of Green river. It is about 70 yards wide at its mouth, 
and 80 miles long. 
TRAETM BICHAN, a bay of the Irish sea, on the west 
coast of Wales, in the county of Merioneth ; 2 miles north 
of Harlech. 
TRAETH MAWER, a bay of the Irish sea, on the 
west coast of Wales, between the counties of Merioneth and 
Caernarvon ; 4 miles north of Harlech. 
TRAETTA, a small town of Italy, in the north-west 
part of the kingdom of Naples, in the Terra di Lavoro. 
It has 3500 inhabitants, and stands on the river Garigliano, 
occupying the site of the ancient Minturna. 
TRAFALGAR, a cape of Spain, on the coast of Anda¬ 
lusia, at the entrance of the straits of Gibraltar, opposite 
to cape Esparte, on the coast of Africa. On the 21st of 
October 1805, the British fleet, commanded by Lord Nelson, 
obtained a complete victory over the combined fleets of 
France and Spain off this cape. Lat. 36. 10. N. long. 
68 . W. 
TRA'FFICK, s. [trafque, Fr.; traffco, Italian.] Com¬ 
merce; merchandizing; large trade; exchange of commodi¬ 
ties. Traffic was formerly used of foreign commerce in 
distinction 
