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The act of delivering into the hands of another;
delivery. |
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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. |
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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. |
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An unwritten code of law represented to have been given
by God to Moses on Sinai. |
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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. |
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To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. |