资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tralatitious \Tral`a*ti"tious\, a. [L. tralatitius,
   translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See {Tralation}.]
   1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted.

            Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation
            is one received by expositor from expositor. --W.
                                                  Withington.

   2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. --Stackhouse.

资料来源 : WordNet®

tralatitious
     adj : having been passed along from generation to generation;
           "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation
           is one received by expositor from expositor" [syn: {handed-down}]