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Meaning of 'tradition' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Tradition [ n.]
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- 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.
- 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.
- An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
- 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.
2 . Tradition [ v. t.]
- To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

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