handed-down English

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handed-down

— adjective (= tralatitious) having been passed along from generation to generation among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor

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tralatitious

transmitted

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On the other hand, financial incentives would probably succeed, because cutting down forest to create pastureland is not profitable enough to induce farmers to forego payments for protecting the land.