Tradition

Etymology

From Middle English tradicioun,

from Old French tradicion,

from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō.

Doublet of treason.

Verb

tradition (third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)

1. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. quotations ▲
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.The spelling has been modernized.