Smriti, in the Hindu religion the name given to traditional usage, as opposed to Sruti, or revelation, and from which proceeded, at a later date, the body of laws, such as that of Manu, in which the morality prescribed is, “sound, solid, and practical.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Smollett, Tobias George * Smyrna