[f. TRADUCE + -ER1.] One who traduces.
1. A defamer, slanderer, calumniator.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. xxii. (1634), 474. Belike these traducers would commend no actions but of dead Princes.
1779. Sheridan, Critic, I. i. You are the greatest traducer of all other authors living.
1868. J. H. Blunt. Ref. Ch. Eng., I. 57. In spite of all that was afterwards alleged by Wolsey’s enemies and traducers.
1922. Evening Herald (Fall River, MA), 25 Aug., 16/1. Asa G. Candler, the father, founder of the Coca Cola Company—the man who ran a $2500 investment up to $25,000,000 and more—won vindication in court and saw his traducers jailed.
† 2. One who deduces or derives. Obs. rare.
1818. in Todd.
1864. Webster cites Fuller.
