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What does "traduce" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.
  3. 4.To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.
  4. 5.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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