What is "handed down"

Usage examples of "handed down".

The finished piece was handed down the line from one to another, each pallbearer stepping back and saluting as he or she finished.

The Council had ended in strife and disarray, without a ruling being handed down, and from that moment, Oberon and Morrigan had ruled two separate Courts, the High King took himself a new Queen, and the Children of Danu were at war among themselves.

Through the records handed down to him from the antediluvian patriarchs.

I hope that the time is near when even that advanced spelling reformer will be left far in the rear by the progress of a people thoroughly weary of longer slavery to the orthographical absurdities handed down to us from a remote and grossly unlearned ancestry.

For we had caught the word, handed down with silent laughter through the ages, that we ourselves are the inventors of the game of life, the kings of this most excellent universe: that there is no sorrow, but fancy weaves it.

In high school, extracting square roots was offered reverentially, as if it were a method once handed down from Mt Sinai.

I was thankful at that moment that the poise gene of some ancient forebear had been preserved in my line and handed down to me.

Ibid's skull was proudly handed down from king to king of the Lombard line.

For, as we have said, God allows the devil more power over that act than over other human acts, because of its natural nastiness, and because by it the first sin was handed down to posterity.

It didn't amount to much, after being handed down by word-of-mouth tradition for four generations.

They are fond of singing and listening to old-fashioned ballads, most of which have never been printed, but handed down from one generation to the other, like the 'Volklieder' of Germany.

As luck would have it, we have just the thing to hand: a ready-made system of mind-control which has been honed over centuries, handed down through generations.

Then, reaching up her hands, she took the baby handed down to her.

Cadell, of Carronpark, also brought a number of skilled English nail-makers into Scotland, and settled them in the village of Camelon, where, by teaching others, the business has become handed down to the present day.

But when the same image has been generated millions of times and has been handed down for many generations and finally appears on the same occasion every time for all mankind, then it acquires at last the same meaning for men it would have if it were the sole necessary image and if the relationship of the original nerve stimulus to the generated image were a strictly causal one.