Word Finder - tradition

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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.

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A commonly held system.

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The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

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To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

It's a tradition around here.

Our family has a long tradition of self-sacrifice and charity.

Maybe we should start the tradition again.

Well... I don't mind breaking tradition and seeing you this morning, but...

A letter of Bishop George of Arabia to Jeshu, a priest of the town Anab, dated 714 (edited by Dashian, Vienna, 1891), contains an independent tradition of Gregory, and styles him a Roman by birth.

Revelation is not Scripture alone, for Scripture taken by itself does not correspond exactly with his description; nor is it church tradition alone, for church tradition must so far rest on Scripture.

In the various ceramic arts Italy was once unrivalled, but the ancient tradition for a long time lost its primeval impulse.

In 1503 a French navigator named Binot Paulmyer, sieur de Gonneville, was blown out of his course, and landed on a large island, which was claimed to be the great southern land of tradition, although Flinders and other authorities are inclined to think that it must have been Madagascar.

These are the instinctive, plain, and most legitimate questions humanity asks itself when it encounters the monuments and tradition of that period.

The tradition I was referring to was you not eating breakfast.

In Naples King Ferdinand retained some of the laws and institutions of Murats rgime, and many of the functionaries of the former government entered Naples his service; but he revived the Bourbon tradition, the odious police system and the censorship; and a degrading religious bigotry, to which the masses were all too much inclined, became the basis of government and social iife.

The first known king of the former was Ida, who, according to tradition, acquired the throne in 547 and reigned twelve years.

How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

In later tradition, Sarpedon was the son of Zeus and Europa and the brother of Minos.

The Talmudic tradition (Baba Batlara 14b) that the men of the Great Synagogue " wrote " Ezekiel, may refer to editorial work by later scholars.'

Still the tradition had its effect.

So how about breaking tradition and going out to breakfast with me?

The church of All Saints is mentioned in Domesday, and tradition ascribes the building of its nave to King John, while the western side of the tower must be older still.

Even then he had begun to distrust the authority of tradition and his teachers.

According to local tradition he was buried at Cefn-y-bedd ("the ridge of the grave") close by, but it is more likely that his headless trunk was taken to Abbey Cwmhir.

There is a tradition that under this tree King Philip, the heroic Indian chief, gazed his last on earth and sky.

The house of Bouillon was not alone in claiming the knight of the swan as an ancestor, and the tradition probably originally belonged to the house of Cleves.

The fashionable use of French for nearly two centuries longer was far more a French fashion than a Norman tradition.

Arab tradition regards it as the home of Job; and it is famous as being the centre of the Ghassanid dynasty.

Boston is a fascinating city, rich in history and tradition.

The White Gods had a long tradition of finding and mating with Oracles.

The tradition was steadily followed and was extended to some ladies of the imperial family and even to imperial favourites.

Revelation is a divine source of knowledge, of which Scripture and church tradition are the channels; and he who would rightly v.

Tradition indicates Selby as the birth-place of Henry I., and thus accounts for the high privileges conferred upon the abbey.

The Athenian tradition, which he follows in the main, would naturally seek to obscure their services.

The older records utilized by the Deuteronomic and later compilers indicate some common tradition which has found expression in these varying forms. Different religious standpoints are represented in the biblical writings, and it is now important to observe that the prophecies of Hosea unmistakably show another attitude to the Israelite priesthood.

Professor Marr has lately published an Arabic text from a MS. in Sinai which seems to contain an older tradition.

It was therefore of the first importance that the chain of tradition should be continuous and trustworthy.

The name Masorah (Massorah) is usually derived from masar, to hand on, and explained as "tradition."

The later tradition and the Shahname of Firdousi makes him (in the modern form Kai Gushtasp) king of Iran.

When the tradition of speaking French had all but died out, the practice was revived by fashion.

The fashion could hardly have taken root except in a land where the tradition had gone before it.

In the Protestant Churches 2 the custom as to vestments differs widely, corresponding to a similar divergence in tradition and teaching.

In Hindu (the Puranas), Parsi and Arab tradition, Mer y is looked upon as the ancient Paradise, the cradle of the Aryan families of mankind, and so of the human race.

The Jarejas have a tradition that when they entered Cutch they were Mahommedans, but that they afterward adopted the customs and religion of the Hindus.

The earliest inhabitants of Laconia, according to tradition, were the autochthonous Leleges.

It may fairly be contended therefore that the tradition that David is the author of the psalms which are assigned to him in books I.

In a word, the ascription of these two collections to_David has none of the characters of a genuine historical tradition.

These have oriental analogies, and lend support to the tradition that the Etruscans came from Asia.

The drug has naturally always been liable to great adulteration in spite of penalties, the severity of which suggests the surviving tradition of its sacred character.

According to tradition he flourished during the first half of the 8th century B.C. He was a vigorous and energetic ruler and greatly increased the power of Argos.

Chronos begat fire, air and water, and from these three sprang numerous other gods; Smoke and darkness appear in a later tradition.

Another Vatican MS. of the 10th century contains illustrations based on an old tradition.

The long tradition of French friendship for Turkey had been broken, in 1830, by the conquest of Algiers.

But, in any case, the Barnabas of history was a greater man than the Barnabas of modern tradition.