Category:Traduce

Tra*duce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traduced; p. pr. & vb. n. Traducing.] Etym: [l. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit As a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + Ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See duke.]

1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental Qualities to one's descendants. [obs.] Glanvill.

2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and Compose works. [obs.] Golden boke.

3. 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. To draw away; to seduce. [obs.] I can forget the weakness of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & fl.

5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an Example of. [obs.] Bacon.

6. 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.

Syn. -- to calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; Decry; slander.