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Tradition
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tradition'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tradition.html. 1828.
