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Definition of Handed-down
1. Adjective. Having been passed along from generation to generation. "Among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handed-down
Literary usage of Handed-down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... upon some well- known fable or traditions handed down to us by ancient write»,
in proof of his idea that ancient Rome occupied the site of a volcano, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This meagre, confused, and inaccurate account seems to be all that has been handed
down in the oral traditions of the eventually were forced to withdraw, ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1838)
"... adding but little force to the prejudiced accounts the church of Rome has
handed down to posterity, concerning the monarch who had the independence to ..."
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