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TRADITION
custom, tradition
(noun) a specific practice of long standing
tradition
(noun) an inherited pattern of thought or action
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tradition (countable and uncountable, plural traditions)
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.
A commonly held system.
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Synonyms
• (a commonly held system): doctrine
Verb
tradition (third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)
(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Source: Wiktionary
Tra*di"tion, n. Etym: [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason, Traitor.]
1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.
2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
3. 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. Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.
4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. Mark vii. 13.
(b) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing. Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thess. ii. 15. Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.
Tra*di"tion, v. t.
Definition: To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [Obs.] The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FATIGUE
(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”
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