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traduce (traduces, present participle traducing; past and past participle traduced)

(transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 1, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
  , scene 4
  This heavy-headed revel east and west
  Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
(archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, X:
  However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].
(archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
- 1865, "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar, vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
  From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

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