a. [f. L. trāduct- ppl. stem (see above) + -IVE.]
1. Having the property of being ‘traduced’ or transmitted; passing on to another; hereditary; traditional; derivative. Now rare or Obs.
1657. W. Morice, Coena quasi Κοινὴ, xxiv. 248. The punishments as wel as privileges are traductive, as in Attainders.
1670. Maynwaring, Vita Sana, i. 4. Hereditary infirmities, and traductive debilities of Nature.
1741. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. 355. Customs of Men … are all, whether civil or religious, traductive from one another.
1842. Orderson, Creol., Pref. He has … ventured to draw from the sources of his memory traductive events.
2. Logic. Involving ‘traduction.’
1847. [see TRADUCTION 6].
