traditionn.
/trəˈdɪʃn/, U.S. /trəˈdɪʃən/ I. The action or an act of imparting or transmitting something; something that is imparted or transmitted.
1.
a. A belief, statement, custom, etc., handed down by non-written means (esp. word of mouth, or practice) from generation to generation; such beliefs, etc., considered collectively.In early use often used critically, e.g. in quots. c1384, a1425 with reference to Jewish practices and in quots. ?c1450, 1540 with reference to Catholic teachings.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another
traditionc1384
cabal1631
traditional1634
Cabbala1641
traduction1643
lore1663
traditionality1834
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xv. 2 Whi thi disciplis ouerpassen, or breken, the tradiciouns [L. traditionem], or statutis, of elder men [1534 Tyndale rev. Joye the tradicions of the elders]?
?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 120 (MED) Þe egle..fleþ..to rere vp Goddis gospel..laste mannes wit and here tradicions ouergoo and trede doun þe lawe of God.
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 78 But whi breken ȝe Goddis maundement, for ȝoure veyn tradicioun?
?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 392 I-bounden oonly by a posityue lawe or a tradycion þat þai han hem sijlfe made.
1540 L. Ridley Comm. vpon Sayncte Paules Epyst. to Ephesyans v. sig. K.5 Theyr is more punyshement for a tradition of man omytted then for breakynge of goddes commaundements.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. E3v They were not so sure grounded, nor gaue such credite to their traditions and stories but through conuersing with vs they were brought into great doubts of their owne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. i. 67 Go, go,..will you mocke at an ancient Tradition began vppon an honourable respect? View more context for this quotation
1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse ii, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 236 It is a Tradition amongst Naturalists, that Coral grows soft at the bottom of the Sea.
1740 W. Oldys Life Sir W. Ralegh 87 The Tradition goes, that Drake would needs see the Game up, but was soon prevailed on to go and play out the Rubbers with the Spaniards.
1763 J. Macpherson Temora 13 As they have nothing to go upon but the traditions of their bards, the translator thinks that the account of Ossian is as probable.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. ii. 502 The traditions associated with these singular monuments.
1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 4 Stucley's life has been surrounded with a complete cloud of traditions.
1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. vii. 120 The only tradition as to his [sc. the Buddha's] personal appearance credits him with having rather large lobes to his ears!
1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. i. 25 We have every right to speak of the grandeurs of oral tradition.
2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk xxiv. 226 In ancient shamanic traditions right across Eurasia, hawks and falcons were seen as messengers between this world and the next.
b. Theology. Doctrine, or a particular doctrine, which is not stated in scripture but which is believed to have comparable authority, having been transmitted orally or by other non-written means.
(a) Christian Church. Doctrine, or a particular doctrine, which, though not explicit in the Bible, is believed to derive from the oral teaching of Christ and the Apostles and to be divinely revealed. Also: the transmission of such doctrine. In later use (in Roman Catholic and Orthodox usage) often with capital initial, or modified by holy, sacred, etc.The acceptance of doctrine of this kind is characteristic of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches; rejection of doctrines not found to be clearly warranted by the Bible is fundamental to Protestantism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > tradition > [noun]
traditionc1425
paradosis1853
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 5831 (MED) By techyng of al holy chirche, Þe holy doctryne and tradiciouns, We schal dispise swiche oppiniouns Whiche of þe fende wer founde nat of late.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Iiijv The church maie make lawes, appoynct tradicions whatsoeuer thei bee.
1562 Articles of Relig. xxxiv Whosoever..doth openly break the traditions and ceremonies of the Church which be not repugnant to the word of God.
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 89 The Church hath no perpetuall Traditions, but such as are..contained in holy Scripture.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 512 The truth With superstitions and traditions taint. View more context for this quotation
1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts (ed. 2) ii. v. 400 It being the Tradition of the Church.
1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xxiii. 213 The Sunday, or the Lord's Day, which we observe by Apostolical Tradition instead of the Sabbath.
1831 W. H. Drummond Doctr. Trinity (ed. 3) xii. 94 The adoration of Christ..is founded neither on Scripture, nor on reason and common sense, but on tradition and the infallible church.
1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 828/2 Tradition, in Theology..is commonly employed to denote any doctrine or alleged fact, delivered or handed down, and received on the faith that the first to whom it was delivered received it from an authentic source.
1911 F. S. Chapin Educ. & Mores 60 Higher education..persisted in concerning itself with criticism of sacred usage rather than with the transmission of holy tradition.
1951 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 4 288 The Old Church..deliberately set itself apart from the rest of Christendom by demanding rigid conformity to its own absolutisations of tradition.
2012 F. W. Marks Think & Believe 224 Some of what we know about Mary comes from Sacred Tradition.
(b) Judaism. An ordinance of the Oral Law not in the Torah but held to have been delivered by God to Moses and transmitted orally from generation to generation; these ordinances considered collectively, constituting the Mishnah.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > law > Jewish law > [noun] > substance of
Cabbala1521
tradition1585
Mishnah1610
cabal1616
Oral Law1731
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. i. 11 Vnder the name of doctrine receiued from Moses by word of mouth, without writing, that is to say tradition, the Scribes and Pharisies were able smoothlie to carie away any thing, til Christ recalled all things to the Lawe.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xii. 142 When two Rabbins (saith their Talmud) maintaine contrary opinions, yet must not men contradict them, because both of them hath his Kabala or Tradition for the same.
a1727 W. Wotton Some Thoughts Conc. Proper Method Divinity (1734) 24 The Text of these Traditions, which the Rabbinistic Jews hold to be of equal Authority to that of the Pentateuch, is the Misna.
1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya I. p. xli The Jews paid more regard to the fabulous traditions of their Rabbins than to the severe and unaccommodating precepts of the Pentateuch.
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. xliv. 205 The commands or ‘traditions’ of the Fathers, handed down from the days of the Great Synagogue, but ascribed with pious exaggeration to the Almighty.
1919 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 36 44 By the term ‘Talmudic literature’ we mean the works that contain that body of ‘traditions’ originally taught orally.
2014 K. A. D. Smelik & K. Vermuelen Approaches to Lit. Readings Anc. Jewish Writings 229 In most rabbinic works, these formulas introduce early tannaitic traditions.
(c) Islam. An account of a saying or act of Muhammad not recorded in the Qur'an but believed to have been initially transmitted orally and subsequently written down (see Hadith n.); these accounts considered collectively, esp. those constituting the collection accepted as authoritative in Sunni Islam but not in Shia Islam (see Sunnah n.).
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > non-Judaeo-Christian scriptures > [noun] > Qur'an > Sunna: traditional sayings
Sunnah1638
tradition1678
Haditha1817
1678 T. Smith Remarks Manners of Turks 89 The Law by which they judge and determine Cases, being..founded in their Alcoran and Sunna or Tradition.
1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens II. 87 The Muslemans, (who intitle themselves Sonnites, that is Observers of the Tradition, and Orthodox).
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sonna There are also Sectaries among the Mahometans, called Sciaites, who reject the Traditions of the Sonnites.
1807 E. S. Waring Tour Sheeraz i. xviii. 72 The Shura, a name the Koran receives when applied to judicial proceedings, and to the Hudees, or traditions of the prophet.
1860 J. Gardner Faiths World Sonnah, the Tradition of the Mohammedans, being the authentic record of the sayings and doings of the Prophet... There are six collections of the Sonnite traditions, and four of those of the Schiites.
1922 Moslem World July 275 If these Hadith Qudsi are Divine traditions and portions of God's revelation to Man, why are they not mentioned in the Koran?
1994 W. L. Cleveland Hist. Mod. Middle East ii. 29 The tradition of the Prophet, known as sunnah.
c. Any practice or custom which is generally accepted and has been established for some time within a society, social group, etc. (in later use not necessarily one passed down from generation to generation); such practices, etc., considered collectively.In quot. 1818: an embodiment of this; a ‘relic’.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group
i-wunec888
thewc893
wise971
law of (the) landc1175
customa1200
wonec1200
tidingc1275
orderc1300
usancea1325
usagec1330
usea1393
guisea1400
spacec1400
stylec1430
rite1467
fashion1490
frequentation1525
institution1551
tradition1597
mode1642
shibboleth1804
dastur1888
praxis1892
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > long-established method of proceeding
tradition1597
an old Spanish custom1932
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 169 Throw a way respect, Tradition, forme, and ceremonious duetie. View more context for this quotation
1651 P. Chamberlen Plus Vltra (single sheet) Earthly men, and Seas of their Traditions.
1705 Oculist 5 Even the best recorded Golden Rule of Art, may prove but a fallible Tradition, if Book-work Knowledge were the Physicians only Guide.
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 183 The duke is a tradition of the grands seigneurs of the courtly times of France, a tradition fast wearing out.
1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple ix. 89 The glorious traditions of their race seemed against them.
1891 Leeds Mercury 2 May 6/5 A scheme..which was contrary to Conservative traditions.
1925 Jrnl. Social Forces 3 518/2 The universities, over-zealous for the truth, may play havoc with tradition and social stability.
1950 Cleveland Call & Post 7 Jan. 8 b/4 This is the story of a house and a man who defied tradition to build it.
2010 Independent 20 Jan. 15/5 The release in 1998 of The McGarrigle Hour..established an intermittent tradition of hootenanny-style get-togethers.
d. A literary, artistic, or musical method or style established by a particular person or group, and subsequently followed by others.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > school of artists
school1728
tradition1900
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 21 122 Horace had undertaken to write satire in the tradition of the form established by Lucilius.
1944 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 July 36 (advt.) Writing poetry in the tradition of Donne.
1997 M. M. Delgado in C. Reid Plays: One Introd. p. xviii A tradition of writers from Congreve to Wilde appropriated by the British.
2011 New Yorker 4 July 7/3 Creative electric guitar riffing in the tradition of Jimmy Page.
2. † b. A teaching, an instruction, an ordinance. Obsolete.
a. Teaching, instruction, or (in early use) judgement; the action of communicating information or knowledge, esp. orally. rare after 17th cent. Tradition of the Creed: the delivery of oral instruction on the Creed to people preparing to be baptized.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun]
informinga1382
traditionc1384
informationa1393
kithinga1400
instruction?a1439
impartment1604
informance1604
re-representation1679
didactic1754
briefing1910
imparting1952
trickle-down1962
society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [noun] > oral delivery of information or instructions
traditionc1384
society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] > instruction in
Tradition of the Creed1609
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. ii. 8 Se ȝe that no man disseyue ȝou by philosofye and veyn fallace..vp the tradicioun [L. traditionem] of men, vp elementis of this world, and not vp Crist.
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 321 Thogh þat it were of suche condicioun Be Aristotiles tradicioun.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 160 Peter by ȝifte and tradicion of lot toke Rome.
?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. aii Arystotell..Whyche hath left in bokys of hys tradycyon How euery thyng by heuynly constellacyon Is brought to effecte.
1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.ijv I couet rather to satisfie you particularly, than to vndertake a generall tradition.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Pp3 The expressing or transferring our Knowledg to others..I will tearme by the generall name of Tradition or Deliuerie. View more context for this quotation
1609 H. Leech & R. Parsons Dutifull Consider. Proofe Relig. iii. 122 The reason that Ruffinus giueth of the tradition of the Creed.
1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery i. iii. 102 Tradition is any way of delivering a thing, or word to another; and so every doctrine of Christianity, is by Tradition. I have deliver'd unto you, saith S. Paul, that Christ died for our sins.
1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed vii. 402 We confess it according to the Tradition of the Creed.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation vii. 327 A national institute for the preservation and tradition of useful knowledge.
1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. (at cited word) Tradition of the Creed,..the instruction formerly given on certain days to the catechumens upon the Creed at mass.
1998 H. O. Old Reading & Preaching Script. II. 197 Possibly even the bishop himself felt obliged to preach to the catechumens on the tradition of the creed.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance > oral
traditiona1450
a1450 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Bodl.) (1984) 1 (MED) I shal write to the a forme gadert out of holy fadirs tradiciouns [L. institutis] afore-tymes.
1565 T. Stapleton in tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 153v They putt out of S. Paule the worde Traditions, and put in his place sometime Ordinaunces sometime Institutions.
3.
a. The transmission of beliefs, statements, customs, etc., from generation to generation; the fact of being passed on in this way. Esp. in by tradition.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > action of handing down
tradition1483
traduction1596
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cclixv/2 I haue by doctryne and study lerned of the lesson of them, whiche by tradicion [L. traditione] and lernyng of their forn goers haue receyued it.
1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne sig. Nnivv Concerninge those thinges whiche we doo kepe, or obserue, not beynge wrytten, but by tradition lefte vnto us.
1577 R. E. tr. P. Le Choyselat Disc. Housebandrie sig. C.ivv The..Druydes..learned their Sciences by Tradition, from mouthe to mouthe.
1626 T. Aylesbury Passion Serm. 3 Punishments which hung ouer their heads, and, by the tradition of iust reuenge, vpon their children.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Tradition,..a bequeathing any Doctrine to posterity from age to age.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 4 Riveted in their Minds by Tradition, from Father to Son.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 438 The memory of Greece and Rome would have been feebly preserved by tradition.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. iv. 95 Fragments..tinged with Christian allusion in their later tradition from bard to bard.
1914 A. S. Hoyt Vital Elem. Preaching vii. 151 The argument that the outward appearance of Christ had been impressed upon his friends and handed down by tradition.
2008 New Yorker 19 May 78/1 Demand for food..was inelastic, the amount fixed by the dimensions of the stomach itself, the variety constrained by tradition and habit.
b. This action or fact viewed as an agent, sometimes with a degree of personification. Cf. fame n.1 1b, rumour n. 1c.
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1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 172 Th'imaginary worke of some huge Giants hand: Which if such euer were, Tradition tells not who.
1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith 87 Though you chose to conceal your name, yet Tradition having published it, your labour is to be a great deal the more acceptable for the Authors sake.
a1714 M. Henry Expos. Hist. Bks. New Test. (1715) Acts xii. 7 Tradition makes a mighty Rout about these Chains.
1735 Diss. Cold & Hot Mineral Springs 28 To follow what Experience and Tradition in the history of Cures dictates.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 333 Tradition tells us of numberless miracles performed here!
1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xvi. 153 Wolves, so says tradition, first took gold to Delphi.
1913 H. B. Cotterill Anc. Greece iii. 153 Tradition asserts that the games..were reinstituted by Lycurgus of Sparta and Iphitus, king of Elis.
1997 Straight No Chaser Spring 40/1 Yoruba tradition says that the whole purpose of your life is to work towards achieving ‘Iwa-pele’, which broadly translates as, ‘gentle character’.
II. The action or an act of handing over something or someone.
4.
a. The action of handing over something or (now rarely) someone to another; delivery, transfer. In early use often in negative sense: †the action or an act of surrendering a person into the power of another; betrayal (obsolete). Now archaic.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > treacherous action > [noun]
treason?c1225
treacheryc1300
trechettingc1330
traisementc1380
betrayinga1382
betraisingc1385
proditionc1425
trayment1468
tradition1483
tradiment1535
foul play1546
betrayment1548
false play1567
betray1600
treacherizing1656
betrayal1817
treasony1828
double-crossing1834
trahison1858
dobbing1968
the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > handing over or giving up to another > of a person
tradition1483
rendition1649
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > betrayal > [noun]
trechettingc1330
traisementc1380
betrayinga1382
betraisingc1385
trayment1468
tradition1483
betrayment1548
betray1600
betrayal1817
sell1838
backstabbing1855
ratting1946
society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over
delivery1327
tradition?1538
delation1681
delegation1681
1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation i The office and seruyce of our lorde ihesu criste ys tradycyon & passyon [L. officium de traditione Domini] was solenly songe.
?1538 Inst. Lawes Eng. sig. D.vv This ceremony of lawe is called lyuery of season, that is to wyt a tradicion or gyuynge of season.
1540 in R. G. Marsden Select Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 99 The byer..may entre and take possession of the said shipe goods..withowte any further tradicion or delyvery.
1601 W. Watson Sparing Discov. 13 In that a Priest is made by tradition of the Chalice, Patten, and Host into his hands.
1651 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James (1. 13) 104 A judicial Tradition, and delivering them up to the power of Satan, and their own vile affections.
1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified xi. 225 Then followeth..lastly the tradition of the Bible into his hands.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xx. 307 A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery.
1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Civil Law ii. ii. 24 Justinian abolished the distinction, and gave to Tradition, or simple delivery, all the effects of the ancient Mancipation.
1849 Irish Law Rep. 11 98 The disposal of the growing crops was clearly within the Statute of Frauds, and the tradition of them without a note in writing would be void.
1866 Dublin Rev. Jan. 282 The tradition of the instruments does not enter in the Greek rite of ordination.
1926 G. W. S. Friedrichsen Gothic Version of Gospels 74 Atgiban... Always used..when his [sc. Christ's] judicial tradition (not betrayal) is spoken of.
2005 O. F. Cummings Eucharistic Doctors xi. 181 The tradition of the instruments, that is to say, the handing over of the book of the gospels to a deacon.
b. Church History. In the early Christian church: surrender of sacred books and vessels to the Roman authorities in times of persecution, esp. during the persecution under the emperor Diocletian in the early 4th cent. a.d. Cf. traditor n. 2. Now rare.
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > surrender of sacred books during persecution
tradition1840
traditorship1854
1840 H. H. Milman Hist. Christianity II. 369 The consecration of a bishop guilty of tradition, was the principal ground on which his election was annulled.
1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 128/2 The crime of Tradition was a new one... Was the surrender of the Scriptures to be considered equivalent to a denial of Christ?
1989 W. H. C. Frend in J. Ries et al. Epistole Paoline 96 While not accused of tradition himself, he [sc. Caecilian] had allowed himself to be consecrated by Felix, Bishop of Abtungi.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive, as tradition-monger, tradition-system, etc.
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1624 J. Ussher Answer to Challenge by Iesuite 44 These Deuterotæ (for so St. Hierome useth to style such Tradition-mongers).
1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 5 Believing..the Fables and Reveries of Tradition-mongers, your Poets and Doctors.
1877 J. Schulte Rom. Catholicism iii. 66 The Bible itself is a part of this tradition-system.
1966 Novum Testamentum 8 223 To the use that he [sc. St Paul] made of one of these tradition-complexes we would like to call your attention.
1994 F. E. Peters tr. Ibn Khaldun in Reader on Classical Islam v. 226 Muhammad ibn Isma῾il al-Bukhari.., the leading tradition scholar of his time.
b. Objective, instrumental, etc., as tradition-bound, tradition-loving, tradition-nourished, tradition-ridden, etc., adjs.; also tradition-truster.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [adjective]
retrograde?1518
hidebound1603
tradition-bound1660
tradition-loving1660
tradition-ridden1660
mumpsimus1680
stickfast1803
arriéré1814
stick-in-the-mud1832
reactive1836
reactionary1847
reactionist1848
misoneistic1891
red-necked1896
Blimpian1935
blimpish1938
redneck1938
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective] > traditional > adhering to
traditional1597
traditionary1613
tradition-bound1660
tradition-loving1660
tradition-ridden1660
traditionalist1854
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. iii. 75 The only Rule, as is between these Tradition-Trusters and us.
1824 Universal Rev. July 438 If the Highlanders are really the tradition-loving and story-telling people that we have so often been told.
1855 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 27 Jan. 133/1 Was it thought..that the public, tradition-bound, refuse to know the Grisi save as Norma, Borgia, and the like?
1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 May 7/2 To think that the tradition-bound Austria-Hungary, of all countries in Europe, should be the first to call a Pole to the post of Foreign Minister!
1901 Academy 26 Jan. 81/1 The prosy formula-ridden, tradition-following, go-by-rule eighteenth century.
1901 Weekly Regr. 19 Apr. 485/2 The tradition-nourished intellectual life so distinctive of the Catholic Church.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 25 June 2/3 Experiments..for the warning or encouragement of a more crowded and tradition-ridden island.
1966 New Statesman 17 June 870/1 What sort of people are these tradition-loving, easy-going Soviet montagnards?
2006 K. W. Bender Moneymakers ii. 36 This tradition-steeped family company is one of the oldest private printers of banknotes in the world.
C2. † Tradition Sunday n. Church History Obsolete the Sunday before Easter, Palm Sunday.So called because in some churches it was the day on which the Creed was taught to people preparing to be baptized on Holy Saturday: see Tradition of the Creed at sense 2a.
tradition-directed adj. Sociology (of a person or his or her behaviour) governed or guided by social conventions; socially reliant on tradition; opposed to inner-directed, other-directed.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > conventional > directed by tradition (of a person)
tradition-directed1950
1950 D. Riesman et al. Lonely Crowd i. 9 The society of high growth potential develops in its typical members a social character whose conformity is insured by their tendency to follow tradition: these I shall term tradition-directed people and the society in which they live a society dependent on tradition-direction.
1970 E. Flores in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. ix. 333 In countries ruled by tradition-directed, ignorant landlords,..it is impossible to apply sophisticated redistributive policies.
1998 S. C. Heilman in E. Krausz & G. Tulea Jewish Survival v. 79 Even these tradition-directed Jews will develop a pluralistic Jewish identity.
tradition-direction n. Sociology orientation of a person's behaviour and standards by the influence of social conventions; social reliance on tradition; opposed to inner-direction, other-direction.
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1950 D. Riesman et al. Lonely Crowd i. 9 A society dependent on tradition-direction.
1970 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Mar. 25/3 Societies in stages of ‘tradition direction’, ‘inner direction’ and ‘other direction’.
2011 A. Fraser WASP Question iii. 112 The change from tradition-direction to inner-direction was the greatest social and characterological shift in the history of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
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1852 Christian Remembrancer Oct. 394 It was named Tradition Sunday, because on that day the Creed was taught to the catechumens who were to be baptized on Easter Eve.
1911 Cent. Dict. VIII. (rev. ed.) Tradition Sunday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
traditionv.
/trəˈdɪʃn/, U.S. /trəˈdɪʃən/ Now somewhat rare.
transitive. Chiefly in passive. To transmit by tradition; to relate as a tradition.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > render customary [verb (transitive)] > transmit by tradition
tradition1637
1637 T. Drant Royall Guest Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Your applause (as 'tis tradition'd me) was full and liberall.
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 37 Παρέδωκα ὑμῖν... English it as you please, I traditioned it unto you.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Somerset 20 This I may call a Charitable Curiosity, if true what is traditioned.
1748 Gentleman's Diary 44 A Name in History, which may, which shall, To future Ages be tradition'd down.
1792 J. Budworth Fortnight's Ramble Lakes iv. 25 It is even traditioned by poor people..now residing in Kendal, that the estate was never paid for.
a1811 W. Emerson Hist. Sketch First Church in Boston (1812) iv. 98 It is traditioned, that even the venerable and benevolent Wilson was heard to say, that he must have another colleague.
1872 Daily News 12 Aug. 6/2 It is traditioned of Mr. Childers that he has been seen in a pea jacket.
1967 Dublin Rev. Spring 10 The religious outlooks..that have been traditioned to us.
2001 N. E. Beckman in T. Berger Dissident Daughters xi. 161 As women we had found that the overwhelming amount of words written and traditioned by men had lost their power to evoke awe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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