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