Tradition
[trə'dɪʃ(ə)n] or [trə'dɪʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. (Law.) Transfer (of possession), delivery.[2]. Oral report (from one generation to another).
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Definition
n. the handing down of opinions or practices to posterity unwritten: a belief or practice thus handed down.—adjs. Tradi′tional Tradi′tionary delivered by tradition.—ns. Tradi′tionalism; Traditional′ity.—advs. Tradi′tionally Tradi′tionarily.—n. Tradi′tionist one who adheres to tradition.—adj. Trad′itive traditional.
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Examples
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is not a savage or barbaric race to-day that is not held in a net of such tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They know how to drive a stake through a pleasant tradition that will hold it to its place forever. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For then you are dealing with living ideas: to search his text has its uses, but compared with the actual tradition of Marx it is the work of pedantry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So roughly the tradition is handed on. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pictorial and sculptured record and _verbal tradition_ began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A powerful business corporation still preserves its industrial tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such things ye do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This tradition is still active even in democratic America. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This empire embodied a tradition much more ancient than that of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition--somebody else's tradition--that I see among our own friends. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It is in the older and more characteristic English tradition from which the Declaration of Independence derives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor any traditions of one? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They came into this inheritance of a previous civilization with the ideas and traditions of the woodlands still strong in their minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its hoary traditions make it an object of absorbing interest to even the most careless stranger, and thus far it had interest for me; but no further. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My mother would be very proud could she only know how well I have maintained the traditions of my father's prowess. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He disregarded all social traditions, and drew his officers from every class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The priest is not generally a man of much learning; he knows, however, the traditions of his faith. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They developed mental dispositions and traditions and attitudes of thought one to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Travel and experience mar the grandest pictures and rob us of the most cherished traditions of our boyhood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These regions, as we have seen, fell for long ages under the sway of the Oriental type of monarchy and of Oriental religious traditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Each province clung to its separate nationality and traditions, and the Huns spread from province to province. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip of the authority of custom and traditions as standards of belief. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Regard must be had to their traditions, their opportunities, and their limitations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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