Keep and Pass down

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Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Pass down is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for pass down in contribute topic.

Very possibly the entirety of The Dresden Files; it has been mentioned in the novels that wizards of the White Council are expected to keep journals, which they pass down to their apprentices—as well as the journals of their teachers, and their teacher's teachers, etc, ad nauseum.

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