What does "traduction" mean?

Traduction: Translation from one language to another. [Obs.]

Additional senses

  1. 2.Derivation by descent; propagation. [R.] If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good. Dryden.
  2. 3.The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.
  3. 4.Transition. [Obs.] Bacon.
  4. 5.(Logic) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. Jevons.

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