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   Tradition , n. [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason, Traitor.]
   The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. “A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.”
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   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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   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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   (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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   Tradition, 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.
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