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Traduce
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- 1 To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements. transitive
"This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]"
- 2 speak unfavorably about wordnet
- 3 To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit. archaic, transitive
"However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son […]."
- 4 To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate. archaic, transitive
"From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones."
Etymology
From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“I lead”). Compare cognate transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
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