Crossword clues for traduce
traduce
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traduce \Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traduced; p. pr. & vb. n. Traducing.] [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.]
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.]
--Glanvill.To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.]
--Golden Boke.-
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. -
To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.]
I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers.
--Beau. & Fl. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.]
--Bacon.-
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "alter, change over, transport," from Latin traducere "change over, convert," also "lead in parade, make a show of, dishonor, disgrace," originally "lead along or across, bring through, transfer" (source also of French traduire, Spanish traducir, Italian tradurre), from trans- "across" (see trans-) + ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Sense of "defame, slander" in English is from 1580s, from Latin traducere in the sense of "scorn or disgrace," a figurative use from the notion of "to lead along as a spectacle." Related: Traduced; traducing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements. 2 (context archaic transitive English) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit. 3 (context archaic transitive English) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
WordNet
v. speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere" [syn: badmouth, malign, drag through the mud]
Usage examples of "traduce".
Clearly it was not style, for style in itself was untranslatable, but it was that high theurgic magic that made the English Don Quixote, roughly traduced by some Jervas, perhaps the best of all English books.
My name perhaps among the circumcised, In Dan, in Judah, and the bordering tribes, To all posterity may stand defamed, With malediction mentioned, and the blot Of falsehood most unconjugal traduced.
And next to him again is the beautiful, the accomplished, the witty, the fascinating, the tormenting, Lady Clarinda, who traduces herself to the said Captain by assertions which it would drive him crazy to believe.
Boers, who hated and traduced missionaries, loathed and abominated British rule and permanent officials, loved slavery and killed Kaffirs whenever they got the chance.
I could not avoid thinking that I had fallen in with a greatly traduced people, and I moralized not a little upon the disadvantage of having a bad name, which in this instance had given a tribe of savages, who were as pacific as so many lambkins, the reputation of a confederacy of giant-killers.
Perhaps, even worse, there have been men who have been misinterpreted, traduced, forsaken, because they have been compelled for a reason sacredly secret to take a certain course which seemed disreputable, and the word which would have explained everything they have loyally sworn, for the sake of a friend, never to speak, and it has remained unspoken for ever.
Percie excepted) greater experience amongst them, however misconstruction may traduce here at home, where is not easily seen the mixed sufferances, both of body and mynd, which is there daylie, and with no few hazards and hearty griefes undergon.
He had traduced Hogan by suggesting that the Irish Major had written everything in his letter, but Spears' anger had made Sharpe decide not to launch himself on a convoluted explanation.
Someone who'd traduced her, possibly to keep her from departing Menzoberranzan, though she couldn't imagine why.
He had seen that the granting of land to the commons was in defiance of the opinion of the senate, and he seized the opportunity it afforded him of traducing Servius and strengthening his own faction in that assembly.
When it had become clear to Sextus what his father meant him to understand by his mysterious silent action, he proceeded to get rid of the foremost men of the State by traducing some of them to the people, whilst others fell victims to their own unpopularity.
If that were so, she would doubtless be rewarded handsomely for traducing them.
When the Rebel faction expanded to include normals as well as metapsychic operants, he became one of its most eloquent literary proponents, achieving polity-wide notoriety as well as an improved bank balance by writing dark satires traducing the Milieu.
At the same time she sent the bailiff Labadie to Riguepeu, to find out the names of those who were traducing her, and to say that she intended to prosecute her calumniators with the utmost rigour of the law.
I should be sorry to place too much reliance on mere gossip, but it has been to some extent borne out by Lindeth—not, you may be sure, with any intention of traducing his cousin.