Definition of tradition
- 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.