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standard
Acceptable but of less than top quality:
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  1. Acceptable but of less than top quality:
  2. (Linguistics) Conforming to models or norms of usage admired by educated speakers and writers:
  3. Normal, familiar, or usual:
customary
In keeping with custom, or usage; usual; habitual
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  1. In keeping with custom, or usage; usual; habitual
  2. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
  3. Based on custom or tradition rather than written law or contract.
doctrinal
Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
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  1. Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
canonical
(Music) In the form of a canon.
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  1. (Music) In the form of a canon.
  2. According to recognised or orthodox rules.
  3. Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
received
Accepted; considered as standard
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  1. Accepted; considered as standard
  2. Having been accepted as true or worthy:
time-honored
Respected or adhered to because of age or age-old observance.
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  1. Respected or adhered to because of age or age-old observance.
  2. Honored because of great age, or long usage
  3. Honored or observed because in existence or use for a long time
button-down
Fastened down by buttons:
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  1. Fastened down by buttons:
  2. Having buttons extending down the front from the collar to the waist:
  3. Designating a collar, as on a shirt, having points fastened by small buttons to the front of the garment
conformist
Marked by conformity or convention:
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  1. Marked by conformity or convention:
  2. Characterized by the tendency to conform
conventional
Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy:
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  1. Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy:
  2. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary:
  3. Depending on or conforming to formal or accepted standards or rules rather than nature; not natural, original, or spontaneous
establishmentarian
Of or relating to support for the official status of an established church.
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  1. Of or relating to support for the official status of an established church.
  2. Of or relating to support for the political or social establishment.
  3. Belonging to, supporting, or characteristic of the Establishment
straight
Extending continuously in the same direction without curving:
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  1. Extending continuously in the same direction without curving:
  2. Not deviating from the normal or strict form:
  3. Not altered, embellished, or modified:
traditional
Designating or of a style of improvised jazz associated historically with early black New Orleans musicians and typically played by a band made up of one or two cornets, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section that includes a banjo and a tuba
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  1. Designating or of a style of improvised jazz associated historically with early black New Orleans musicians and typically played by a band made up of one or two cornets, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section that includes a banjo and a tuba
  2. Of, relating to, or in accord with tradition:
  3. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
square
Square or rectangular in cross section, as some files
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  1. Square or rectangular in cross section, as some files
  2. Designating or of a unit of surface measure in the form of a square having sides of a specified length
  3. Having a base that is a square:
accepted
Widely encountered, used, or recognized:
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  1. Widely encountered, used, or recognized:
  2. Generally approved, believed, or recognized.
conventional
Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.
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  1. Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.
  2. Depending on or conforming to formal or accepted standards or rules rather than nature; not natural, original, or spontaneous
  3. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary:
received
Having been accepted as true or worthy:
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  1. Having been accepted as true or worthy:
  2. Accepted; considered as standard
recognized
Notable; distinguished; honored.
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  1. Notable; distinguished; honored.
conservative
Of or characteristic of a conservative; tending to preserve established ways or institutions and to resist or oppose radical change
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  1. Of or characteristic of a conservative; tending to preserve established ways or institutions and to resist or oppose radical change
  2. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
  3. Designating or of the major political party of Great Britain or the similar one in Canada that is characterized by conservative positions on social and economic issues
right
Of the side or bank of a river on the right of a person facing downstream
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  1. Of the side or bank of a river on the right of a person facing downstream
  2. Fitting, proper, or appropriate:
  3. Having a right angle:
rightist
Conservative or reactionary
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  1. Conservative or reactionary
tory
Of, being, or having the conservative principles of a Tory
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  1. Of, being, or having the conservative principles of a Tory
traditionalistic
Of, supporting, or pertaining to traditionalism.
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  1. Of, supporting, or pertaining to traditionalism.
conservative
A conservative person
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  1. A conservative person
  2. A member of the Conservative Party of Great Britain or of the Conservative Party of Canada
  3. A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.
rightist
One who believes in the politics or policies of the political right.
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  1. One who believes in the politics or policies of the political right.
  2. A person whose political position is of the right, esp., a conservative or reactionary
tory
A supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of democratization or reform; a political conservative.
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  1. A supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of democratization or reform; a political conservative.
  2. A member of a British political party, founded in 1689, that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832.
  3. Any extreme conservative; reactionary
traditionalist
A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices
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  1. A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices
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  • All the Albanians in Greece belong to the Orthodox Church.

  • There are, besides, in Italy some 2500 members of the Greek Orthodox Church.

  • He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of the Presbyterian church in America, and was moderator of the General Assembly of 1891.

  • Polish proprietors settled in large numbers on the Cossack territory, and great efforts were made, with the assistance of the Jesuits, to bring the Orthodox population under papal authority.

  • As protector Nicholas of the Orthodox Christians he espoused the cause of L and the the rayahs in Greece, Servia and Rumania.

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