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Tra*di"tion (?), n. [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason, Traitor.] 1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. “A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.” Blackstone.
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2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
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3. Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
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Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?
Shak.
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Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
Longfellow.
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4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
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Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered.
Mark vii. 13.
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(b) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
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Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.
2 Thess. ii. 15.
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Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.
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Tra*di"tion, v. t. To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [Obs.]
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The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
Fuller.
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