Word Meanings - TRADITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone. 2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father

Additional info about word: TRADITION

1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone. 2. 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. 3. 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. Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow. An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. Mark vii. 13. 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. Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thess. ii. 15. Tradition Sunday , Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.

Related words: (words related to TRADITION)

• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• TRADITIONER; TRADITIONIST
  One who adheres to tradition.
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• TRADITIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• TRADITIONALLY
  In a traditional manner.
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• TRADITIONARY
  Traditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.
• TRADITION
  1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone. 2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• DELIVERLY
  Actively; quickly; nimbly. Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• QUIRITES
  Roman citizens. Note: After the Sabines and Romans had united themselves into one community, under Romulus, the name of Quirites was taken in addition to that of Romani, the Romans calling themselves in a civil capacity Quirites, while
• MISTRADITION
  A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.