Definition of tradition

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Tradition (n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.

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Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..
Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..
Conventionalism :: Conventionalism (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage..
Scribe :: Scribe (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Zohar :: Zohar (n.) A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century..
Traditionlism :: Traditionlism (n.) A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes..
Extraditable :: Extraditable (a.) Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice..
Militarism :: Militarism (n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Mishna :: Mishna (n.) A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud..
Memory :: Memory (n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory..
Tradition :: Tradition (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..
Sunniah :: Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.
Druid :: Druid (n.) A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries..
Tradition :: Tradition (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Oral :: Oral (a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law..
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Tractarian :: Tractarian (n.) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called Tracts for the Times, issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite..
Mistradition :: Mistradition (n.) A wrong tradition.
Pharisee :: Pharisee (n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews..
Surrenderee :: Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition..
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