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TRADI'TION, n. L. traditio, from trado, to deliver.

1. Delivery the act of delivering into the hands of another.

A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.

The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition.

2. The delivery of opinions,doctrines, practices,rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition. Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.
3. That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.

Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thessalonians 2 .

Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? Matthew 15 .

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Tradition'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​t/tradition.html.
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