v. Also 6 traduse. [ad. L. trādūcĕre to lead across, transport, transfer, derive; also, to lead along as a spectacle, to bring into disgrace; f. trans across + dūcĕre to lead.]
† 1. trans. To convey from one place to another; to transport. Obs.
1535. St. Papers Hen. VIII., VII. 610. The saide Duke of Angolesme shalbe traduced and brought hither into this Realme.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 119. Matter is not traduced thorough the Body as it were by stone-gutters.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. vii. 183. We have no probable Evidence that any of their Descendents traduced the first Colonies of the American Plantations into America.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 706. Evil Demons … exagitating and disturbing the profitable humours,… partly by traducing the noxious into the principal parts.
† b. To put into another form or mode of expression, esp. into another language; to translate, render; to alter, modify, reduce. Obs. (exc. as an affectation after Fr. traduire or L. trādūcĕre, or with pun on sense 3; cf. 5).
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), B v b. The auctoures and writers are dispraysed not of them that can traduce and compose werkes.
1552. Huloet, s.v. B, That whyche they [Grecians] wryte with P. and Ph. is traduced in the Latine in B.
1574. J. Jones (title), A Briefe, Excellent and profitable Discourse of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing things. Collected and tradused aswel forth of the best olde Wryters, as out of the new.
1674. Owen, Vind. Commun. w. God, Wks. 1855, II. 279. Being all of them traduced, and some of them transcribed, from the writings of the Socinians.
1814. Southey, in Q. Rev., XII. 73. Milton has been traduced into French and overturned into Dutch.
1838. Blackw. Mag., XLIV. 615. Count Hypolite writes to us in flowery French, which we will traduce into our own plain English.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, iii. If ye canna traduce to me a page o’ Virgil.
† c. To transfer from one use, sense, ownership, or employment to another. Obs.
1546. Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., I. xiii. 25. This parte Socrates traduced and applyed from heauenly thinges, to the vse of lyfe.
1619. Sir A. Gorges, trans. Bacon’s De Sap. Vet., 83. In his description the Allegorie may bee applied and traduced to manners.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 441. An auncient and famous Kingdome,… not long ago traduced to the Castilian King by marriage.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., III. i. 218. It is traduced from that naturall sence, and used to signifie a man of some eminence in place and government.
† 2. To pass on to offspring, or to posterity; to transmit, esp. by generation. Obs.
1568. H. B., trans. P. Martyr’s Comm. Romans, 85 b. To put vs in mynde, that originall sinne is by generation traduced from the parentes into vs.
1606. Bp. Hall, Medit., I. xxix. Vertue is not traduced in [Wks. (1625) by] propagation, nor learning bequeathed by our will, to our heires. Ibid. (1618), Contempl., N. T., I. i. It is not in the power of parents to traduce holinesse to their children.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. x. 329. This complexion … is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermaticall part traduced from father unto son.
1733. Neal, Hist. Purit., II. 399. The evangelical church … composing those religious models of Invocation and Thanksgiving, which they have traduced unto us as the Liturgies of St. James, Basil, and Chrysostom.
† b. transf. To produce as offspring, or in the way of generation; to propagate. (In passive often indistinguishable from 2.) Obs.
1599. Davies, Immort. Soul, V. viii. For tho’ from Bodies, she [Nature] can Bodies bring, Yet could she never Souls from Souls traduce.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., vii. (1642), 409. There must be a supply of soules for men to be borne,… or soules must be traduced by propagation, as bodies are.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 73. When God traduc’d by His propitious Might, Meal from Meal, Oyl from Oyl, as Light from Light.
† c. To derive, deduce, obtain from a source. (In passive often indistinguishable from 2.) Obs.
1615. J. Wright, Acc. Lady Jane Gray, in Phenix (1708), II. 35. Her Religion being traduc’d from the Instructions of her first Parents, and seconded by the learned Admonitions of them of the same Opinion.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. Introd. 3. Contemplations; which he … traduced, originally,… from the sacred Oracles loged in the Jewish Church.
1709. O. Dykes, Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2), 30. A great Part of us, is certainly traduc’d from our Parents.
3. To speak evil of, esp. (now always) falsely or maliciously; to defame, malign, vilify, slander, calumniate, misrepresent; † to blame, censure.
1586–7. Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 141. To detract, traduce and utter speichis full of dispyte.
1592. Nobody & Someb., in Simpson, Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 279. Do not traduce the King, hees vertuous.
1593. Abp. Bancroft, Daung. Posit., II. i. 41. They could not endure to heare her so traduced into all hatred and obloquy.
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., II. ii. My selfe then will traduce his guilt.
1680. Otway, Orphan, III. i. 806. Has he supplanted me by some foul play, Traduc’d my Honour?
1697. Bentley, Phal., Pref. (1699), 30. What pretense has he for traducing me here, as a proud and insolent man?
1781. Cowper, Expost., 432. The man that dares traduce, because he can With safety to himself, is not a man.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), I. xi. 360. This curious insect so unjustly traduced by a vulgar prejudice.
† b. In various obsolete constructions: To state or affirm slanderously (something) to be so and so; to calumniously blame for, accuse of, charge with.
c. 1618. Moryson, Itin., IV. V. i. (1903), 437. They are confuted, who traduce the English tounge to be like a beggers patched Cloke, which they should rather compayre to a Posey of sweetest flowers.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 88. Yet are they traduced for many defects.
1632. Sir T. Hawkins, trans. Mathieu’s Unhappy Prosperitie, 49. Those that traduce him of pride.
1643. Baker, Chron., Eliz., 59. The Papists everywhere traduced the Queen for cruelty.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xvi. The removing of liturgy he traduces to be done only as a thing plausible to the people.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 39. I cannot warrant any man who hence took occasion to traduce him of Popery.
† c. To expose (to contempt); to bring dishonor upon, dishonor, disgrace. Obs. rare.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. iii. § 3. That which is most traduced to contempt.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 552. Likewise in … many other places of Scripture, whereby God himself must needs be traduced, if there be no Unicorn in the world.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal, 159. By their own ignoble actions they traduce, that is, disgrace their ancestors.
† 4. To lead astray, mislead, seduce, betray. Obs.
a. 1625. [see traduced below].
1625. J. Robinson, Ess., vii. Wks. 1851, I. 38. Many make their choice amiss, as … traduced by some vehement passion of anger, fear, envy, or the like.
a. 1660. Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archeol. Soc.), I. 286. How those abortiue statists … swarve from theire said first holy principles, traduced to the possitiue opposition therof.
† 5. To falsify, misrepresent, pervert, turn into (something bad). Obs.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xii. Wks. 1851, IV. 92. He there cites not the Law of Moses, but the licentious Glosse which traduc’t the Law.
a. 1648. Ld. Herbert, Hen. VIII. (1683), 67. Who taking Texts … traduced the Sense thereof.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Surv. Leviath. (1676), 200. [It] hath in truth traduced the whole Scheme of Christianity into Burlesque.
Hence (in various senses: see above) Traduced ppl. a., Traducing vbl. sb. and ppl. a. (whence Traducingly adv.).
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. iii. The malice of traducing tongues.
a. 1625. Fletcher & Mass., Laws of Candy, III. ii. I can forget the weakness Of the traduced Souldiers.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Introd., Wks. 1851, IV. 137. The Canon Law … punishes the naming or traducing of any person in the Pulpit.
a. 1711. Ken, Urania, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 433. What they all clearly saw We only from traduc’d Sensation draw.
1721. Bailey, Traducingly, slanderously.
1833. Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chron., 4 March, 1/4. It was possible for them, in open contradiction to their uniform sentiments, to traducingly impugn men.
1904. Daily News, 4 May, 4/2. His picture of the young Alexander … is less coloured by traducing rumour.
