tradition

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. [ 1913 Webster ]

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. Mark vii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thess. ii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. traditionnel, LL. traditionalis. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a traditional manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By tradition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Traditional. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Traditionaries [ Cf. F. traditionnare. ] One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them. [ 1913 Webster ]