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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRADU'CE, v.t. [L. traduco; trans, over,and duco, to lead.]
1. To represent as blamable; to condemn.
The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God's church.
2. To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent.
As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing.
He had the baseness to traduce me in libel.
3. To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another.
From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere" [syn: badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (traduced; traducing) Etymology: Latin traducere to lead across, transfer, degrade, from tra-, trans- trans- + ducere to lead — more at tow Date: 1573 1. to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation 2. violate, betray <traduce a principle of law> Synonyms: see malign • traducement noun • traducer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. speak ill of; misrepresent. Derivatives: traducement n. traducer n. Etymology: L traducere disgrace (as TRANS-, ducere duct- lead)

Webster's 1913 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.] 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] --Glanvill. 2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] --Golden Boke. 3. 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. 4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. --Beau. & Fl. 5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] --Bacon. 6. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(traduces, traducing, traduced) If someone has been traduced, unpleasant and untrue things have deliberately been said about them. (FORMAL) We have been traduced in the press as xenophobic bigots. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Vilify, defame, revile, slander, malign, calumniate, asperse, abuse, decry, disparage, depreciate, blemish, run down, speak ill of, wilfully misrepresent, expose to contempt.