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One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.

Received by the ear; known by report. "Auricular traditions." Bacon.

e forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain pai…

museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala [Obs.] Hakewill.

A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of…

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. "Studious cabalists." Swift.

; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious phrases." Addison. Too ceremonious and traditional. Shak.

ted, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan. -- Clan"nish*ly, adv. -- Clan"nish*ness, n.

Agreement; accord; consent. That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor.

establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis. The anient constitutional traditions of the state. Macaulay.

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

hed by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.…

To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.] The fraud of deceivable traditions. Milton.

condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.