Definition of tradition

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Tradition (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..

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Alcoranist :: Alcoranist (n.) One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions..
Tradition :: Tradition (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..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Militarism :: Militarism (n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Extradite :: Extradite (v. t.) To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition..
Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..
Rabbinism :: Rabbinism (n.) The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.
Rabbinist :: Rabbinist (n.) One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions..
Ironbound :: Ironbound (a.) Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions..
Traditional :: Traditional (a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
Tradition :: Tradition (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..
Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..
Traditionary :: Traditionary (n.) One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them..
Mishna :: Mishna (n.) A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud..
Immemorial :: Immemorial (a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial..
Scribe :: Scribe (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Saga :: Saga (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time..
Clannish :: Clannish (a.) Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan..
Traditional :: Traditional (a.) 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..
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