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tradition

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Traditions are customs practiced from one generation to the next. Tradition may refer to: In religion: Sacred Tradition , the deposit of faith on which some Christian churches' dogma is based Traditionalist School , the school of thought incorporating the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tradition \Tra*di"tion\, n. [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason , Traitor .] The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. ``A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.'' --Blackstone. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an age-old tradition/practice/custom etc British English ▪ age-old customs cultural traditions ▪ The ceremony is an important cultural tradition for the tribe. custom/tradition dictates sth ▪ On the island, custom still ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inherited pattern of thought or action a specific practice of long standing [syn: custom ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays. vb. (context obsolete English) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. ...

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.