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Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

Receive :: Receive (v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to..

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..

Gaditanian :: Gaditanian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.

Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.

Shiah :: Shiah (n.) A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans..

Traditionalist :: Traditionalist (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist..

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..

Traditioner :: Traditioner (n.) Alt. of Traditionis.

Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

Extradite :: Extradite (v. t.) To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition..

Mistradition :: Mistradition (n.) A wrong tradition.

Vanadite :: Vanadite (n.) A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite..

Traditive :: Traditive (a.) Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional..

Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course..

Nevadite :: Nevadite (n.) A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada..

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.

Extraditing :: Extraditing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extradit.

Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Shibboleth :: Shibboleth (n.) A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii..

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