Tradition - TRADI'TION, n. [L. traditio, from trado, to deliver.]
1. Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another.
A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition.
2. The delivery of opinions,doctrines, practices,rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition. Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.
3. That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Th 2.
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? Mat 15.
Trafficker - TRAF'FICKER, n. One who caries on commerce; a trader; a merchant. Isa 8.
Trample - TRAM'PLE, v.t.
1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Mat 7.
2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.
TRAM'PLE, v.i. To tread in contempt.
Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.
1. To tread with force and rapidity.
TRAM'PLE, n. The act of treading under foot with contempt.
Transfiguration - TRANSFIGURA'TION, n.
1. A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.
See Mat 17.
2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.
Transfigure - TRANSFIG'URE, v.t. [L. trans and figura.] To transform; to change the outward form or appearance.
--And was transfigured before them. Mat 17.