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Webster 1913 Edition

Tradition

Tra-di′tion

,
Noun.
[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.
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.
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.
Will you mock at an ancient
tradition
begun upon an honorable respect?
Shakespeare
Naught but
tradition
remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
Longfellow.
4.
(Theol.)
(a)
An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
Making the word of God of none effect through your
tradition
, which ye have delivered.
Mark vii. 13.
(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.
Stand fast, and hold the
traditions
which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.
2 Thess. ii. 15.
Tradition Sunday
(Eccl.)
,
Palm Sunday; – so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.

Tra-di′tion

,
Verb.
T.
To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
[Obs.]
The following story is . . .
traditioned
with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tradition

TRADI'TION

,
Noun.
[L. traditio, from trado, to deliver.]
1.
Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another.
A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition.
2.
The delivery of opinions,doctrines, practices,rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition. Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.
3.
That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thess. 2.
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? Matt. 15.

Definition 2024

Tradition

Tradition

See also: tradition

German

Noun

Tradition f ‎(genitive Tradition, plural Traditionen)

  1. tradition

Declension

Derived terms

tradition

tradition

See also: Tradition

English

Noun

tradition ‎(countable and uncountable, plural traditions)

  1. A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
    • 1920, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood:
      Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
    • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!:
      Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
    • 1850, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree:
      After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
  2. A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
    • Blackstone
      A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.

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Verb

tradition ‎(third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)

  1. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
    • Fuller
      The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

External links

  • tradition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • tradition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Danish

Noun

tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)

  1. tradition

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Finnish

Noun

tradition

  1. Genitive singular form of traditio.

French

Etymology

Old French; Borrowed from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/
  • Homophone: traditions
  • Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion

Noun

tradition f ‎(plural traditions)

  1. tradition

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Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Old French tradicion ‎(“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.

Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)

  1. delivery
  2. treason
  3. fable; oral narrative
  4. custom
  5. tradition

Descendants

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Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tradition c

  1. tradition

Declension

Inflection of tradition 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tradition traditionen traditioner traditionerna
Genitive traditions traditionens traditioners traditionernas

Related terms

Etymology

From Latin trāditiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tʁadiˈtsi̯oːn]

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