Sekirov Dictionary

tradition

/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3

noun5

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a way of doing things that older people pass on to younger ones, so that it lasts for many years
- After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death. — 1850
•
A commonly held system.
- They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.
•
An established or distinctive style or method
- Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.
•
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it. — 1765

verb1

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(no longer used) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
- The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics. — 1655

forms

traditioned · traditioning · traditions

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