Definition of "time-honored" []

• Respected or adhered to because of age or age-old observance. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This episode gave birth to the “Washington Monument ploy,” which refers to the time-honored tradition of politicians responding to threats of spending cuts by declaring that the most popular programs would be the first to go."
• "With the advent of the Phoenician alphabet, then, and following other alphabets that appeared in its wake, time-honored social orders were reconfigured, and wider populations gained access to literacy."
• "Here the ministers wear time-honored white robes, adorned with colorful stoles."