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Example sentences for "traditional"

Lexicographically close words:
tradewind; tradidit; trading; tradita; tradition; traditionalism; traditionalist; traditionally; traditionary; traditionist
  1. The frequent roughnesses of the traditional text suggest, however, that here and there marginal glosses may have crept in.

  2. He materially helped to establish that friendly feeling towards Italy which became traditional in England.

  3. In one instance a party of four or five Englishmen ran the blockade in the traditional carriage and pair.

  4. Traditional educational methods have more often given encouragement to crowd-thinking than to independence of judgment.

  5. The attempt of the dominant crowd to retain its hold by repeating its traditional justification-platitudes, unchanged, but with greater emphasis, may be seen in the orations of Cicero.

  6. Too much of our so-called intellectualism is merely the substitution of ready-made proletarian crowd-ideas for the traditional crowd-ideas which pass for thinking among the middle classes.

  7. The point is that it is precisely what a correct knowledge of ancient civilization through a study of the classics does that our traditional educators most dread.

  8. It is impossible here to enter into an extended discussion of the humanist theories of knowledge as contrasted with the traditional or "intellectualist" theories.

  9. It has long been the habit of traditional education to oppose to the teaching of science the teaching of the classic languages and the arts, as if there were two irreconcilable principles involved here.

  10. That these borrowed transcendental and dialectical systems served their purpose in the warfare of traditional theologies against Science is but half the truth.

  11. In the foregoing chapter, reference was made to our traditional educational systems.

  12. Even so the Protestants would probably be the stronger, and therefore they must be divided by utilizing any religious split, any class distinction, any personal or traditional dislikes, or else by bribery.

  13. Charles must obtain subsidies from ecclesiastical sources, and the support of all German Catholics, especially of the traditional rival, Bavaria.

  14. Spain, and ownership is determined by means of posts, piles of stones, and other traditional landmarks.

  15. Nevertheless, it is written in the traditional ballad style, and is very fine and spirited.

  16. This love of veracity in costume and environment is a feature which is traditional in the factory; it therefore comes as no surprise to find that peasant types are produced with underglaze treatment in colours.

  17. It was not enough that all traditional arabesques and scrolls should be discarded: the plain white resplendent surface of the ware demanded its place in the scheme of decoration.

  18. These are found on reproductions of old and rare examples of the early days, made by the factory on traditional lines.

  19. These designs appear to be traditional on common ginger jars half a century apart in point of time.

  20. The significance of the Copernican system, as the total overthrow of the traditional conception of the universe, dawned on all educated men.

  21. The relics of the traditional story may then have been adapted by scribes and priests to a new theory.

  22. Of his own works--and the fact is curious when one remembers some of his traditional characteristics--there are practically no examples, at least there is none catalogued.

  23. So his imagination and mine were much excited by the prospect of this excursion, which filled the school with traditional glee.

  24. He regarded the Bible as a part of the traditional history of the antediluvian nations which had taken for its share the new humanity.

  25. Et Verbum caro factum est seemed a sublime statement intended to express the traditional formula of the Will, the Word, and the Act made visible.

  26. We know how tenaciously Jews clung to their religion and to their traditional practices, and they sought to lay their departed members in rocky sepulchres, such as those of their distant country.

  27. In Gethsemane, "the chapel of the Tomb of the Virgin, over the traditional spot where the Mother of our Lord was buried by the Apostles, is mostly underground.

  28. Every one may interpret the Mishnah in accordance with reason, even if the interpretation be not in keeping with the traditional meaning as construed by the Amoraim.

  29. It cemented the "traditional friendship" which has always existed between Anglo-Jews and Russo-Jews more than between any sets of Jews of the dispersion.

  30. The Jews showed that the traditional description applied to them, "stiff-necked," was not undeserved.

  31. If we disregard them, the passage plainly enough states the view that the only element of truth in the traditional notions about the gods was the divinity of the sky and the heavenly bodies; the rest is myth.

  32. So far we may rightly say that it was Copernicus, Galileo, Giordano Bruno, Kepler and Newton that did away with the traditional conception of ancient paganism.

  33. They are leavened with reflections on all possible moral and religious problems, and criticism of the traditional conceptions of the gods plays a leading part in them.

  34. But this is putting the problem the wrong way up—Socrates never stood critically outside popular belief and traditional religious thought speculating as to whether he should use it or reject it.

  35. His book called forth an answering pamphlet from a Jesuit advocating the traditional view; the little controversy seems to have made some stir in France about the year 1700.

  36. Voss; he operates entirely with the traditional view.

  37. Nevertheless, among the Greeks, with their strong proclivity to reflective thought, criticism early arose against the traditional conceptions of the gods.

  38. But it is not improbable that the traditional theory of the reality of the ancient deities may have had something to do with it.

  39. But Beethoven, from the outset of his career, broke through this traditional arrangement, and so began by surprising his hearers, and ended by making their intelligence co-operate with his own.

  40. Even then, he mentions it as a traditional tale, which he had often heard with pleasure.

  41. This celebrated tale was probably taken by Boccacio from some ancient chronicle or traditional legend.

  42. In writing to French Ministers of State it is a traditional custom to employ a certain paper called "papier ministre," which is very much larger than that sent to ordinary mortals.

  43. A man of science is equally unconnected with traditional observances.

  44. Let others follow the devices of their imaginations, or prostrate themselves before traditional superstitions, or kiss the feet of a sinful man.

  45. Traditional catholicism uttered a cry from the depths of its noisome pools, (to use Erasmus's figure).

  46. Flamboyant Gothic style, cinque-cento details mixed up with Gothic at first, then superseding them, and even when the influence of the Italian revivalists began to exert itself, still retaining much of her traditional methods of design.

  47. The elliptical sections given to all the barrel vaults may have been the traditional method derived from Assyria, of which, however, no remains exist.

  48. The masons, in fact, would seem to have retained the traditional Phoenician custom of the country to employ the largest stones they were able to quarry, transport and raise on the building.

  49. This carries on the traditional custom of the Roman temples in Syria, the roofs of which, in stone, were similarly supported.

  50. His mind, too, belonged to that class which finds it almost impossible to emancipate itself from traditional politics.

  51. In the first place, the traditional policy of Rome regarded reaction as equivalent to revolution.

  52. But Gracchus preferred the traditional and indirect method.

  53. The three ranks were formed in the traditional manner; the spaces between the maniples were filled by slingers and archers; the whole of the cavalry was placed on the flanks.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traditional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; accustomed; acknowledged; admitted; ancient; antique; approved; authentic; authoritative; canonical; certain; chronological; classical; conservative; conventional; correct; current; customary; decent; decorous; established; evangelical; everyday; faithful; familiar; firm; fixed; folk; formal; habitual; hallowed; hereditary; heroic; historical; hoary; immemorial; inveterate; legendary; literal; meet; mythical; mythological; normal; old; oral; ordinary; orthodox; popular; prescribed; prescriptive; prevalent; proper; proverbial; received; recognized; regular; regulation; right; rooted; scriptural; seemly; sound; spoken; standard; step; stock; textual; traditional; true; understood; unwritten; usual; venerable; verbal; widespread; wonted; worshipful