tradition.
(Of thelat. )( traditio, - onis).
1. f. transmission of news, literary compositions, doctrines, rites, customs, etc., made from generation to generation.
2. f. news from a former fact transmitted in this way.
3. f. doctrine, custom, etc., preserved in a village by transmission from parents to children.
4. f. literary elaboration, in prose or verse, an event transmitted by oral tradition .
(f). Der. Giving to someone of something. Tradition of a sold thing6. f. Ecd. Set of texts, preserved or not, which over time have conveyed a certain work. The tradition of the book of good love is composed of few manuscripts