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Webster 1913 Edition
Tradition
Tra-di′tion
,Noun.
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.
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.