Obs. [f. L. trāduct-, ppl. stem of trādūcĕre: see prec.] trans. To transmit, esp. by generation; to propagate: TRADUCE 2, 2 b.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, I. v. 24. Although the Soule be not traducted (as they tearme it) and by generation conferred.
c. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. viii. § 2 (1622), 281. Our Nature, as it is now depraued in vs, and by the corrupt Conduicts of our sinfull Parents traducted vnto vs.
1657. W. Morice, Coena quasi Κοινὴ, xxxiii. 306. This uncleannesse is alway diffused and traducted, as legal uncleannesse also was.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul, II. xlii. § 6. 256. How this newly-created Soule is infused by God, no man knowes; nor how, if it be traducted from the Parents, both their Soules contribute to the making up a new one.
Hence † Traducter, -or, one who ‘traducts’; in quot. = TRADUCTIONIST.
1682. H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Lux O., 21. So weak an Illustration is this of what these Traducters would have.
