TRADUCE

v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.

2.
v.

To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.

3.
v.

To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. Sir M. Hale.

4.
v.

To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.

5.
v.

To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.

6.
v.

To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden.

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