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traducing
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of traduce English)
Usage examples of "traducing".
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.
The only effect of traducing him as a traitor will be that afterwards, becoming ashamed of such a false accusation, the same men will suddenly make a hero or a genius of him, and that will be still more unjust.
In the presence of the King he turned to my lord Isambard, and: 'Well I know, my lord,' said he, 'that I have you to thank for traducing me to the King's Grace.