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An inherited pattern of thought or action
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"Tradition" is the opening number for the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof . In the song, the main character, Tevye , explains the roles of each social class (fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters) in the village of Anatevka , and how the traditional ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tradition \Tra*di"tion\, v. t. To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [Obs.] The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics. --Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "statement, belief, or practice handed down from generation to generation," especially "belief or practice based on Mosaic law," from Old French tradicion "transmission, presentation, handing over" (late 13c.) and directly from Latin traditionem ...
Usage examples of tradition.
Experience is of no account, neither is history, nor tradition, nor the accumulated wisdom of ages.
This tradition, as we saw in Part V, contained values for the rate of precessional motion that were so accurate and so consistent it was extremely difficult to attribute them to chance.
Nevertheless I could hardly forget that out of this very same Heliopolitan tradition the great myth of Isis and Osiris had flowed, covertly transmitting an accurate calculus for the rate of precessional motion.
It cannot be truly international unless it accords to its affiliated bodies full freedom in matters of policy and forms of struggle on the basis of such program and principles, so that the Socialists of each country may work out their problems in the light of their own peculiar economic, political and social conditions as well as the historic traditions.
The analytic of man is not a resumption of the analysis of discourse as constituted elsewhere and handed down by tradition.
France, where he came next in 1882, the traditions of the Commune had nourished a militant Anarchist movement of which there was a flourishing group in Lyons.
The fixing of the tradition under the title of apostolic necessarily led to the assumption that whoever held the apostolic doctrine was also essentially a Christian in the apostolic sense.
It was only after the apostolic tradition, fixed in the form of a comprehensive collection, seemed to guarantee the admissibility of every form of Christianity that reverenced that collection, that the hellenising of Christianity within the Church began in serious fashion.
Tertullian, nor thinks it necessary to prove that the Church had presented the apostolic tradition intact.
Marcionite Church had compelled orthodox Christianity to make a selection from tradition and to make this binding on Christians as an apostolical law.
Again, the most immediately familiar example of this archetype comes from the traditions of Christian iconography.
I rose out of the long traditions of Europe where artistry runs deep in the marrow of the selected few.
Verily, the Eighteenth Congress had the courage to destroy the assimilationist tradition whose chief characteristic is a reliance on others and appeals to others .
This alternative tradition, together with the ideas of genetic epistemology developed over the same period by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, became a serious competitor to associationism, especially in western Europe.
The Anglophone tradition in this century, which in almost every other respect has made a powerful and prolific contribution to revolutionary historiography, has a particularly egregious record of silent embarrassment, rather as though a dinner guest had met with an unfortunate but inexplicable accident in the college common room.