traduce

[Tra*duce·]

To traduce is to badmouth someone or something. If you don't want people talking trash about you, then don't traduce them either even if they started it.

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To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

Verb
speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"

v. t.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

v. t.
To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.

v. t.
To increase or distribute by propagation.

v. t.
To draw away; to seduce.

v. t.
To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.

v. t.
To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

Traduce

Tra*duce" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traduced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Traducing .] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See Duke.] 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill. 2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke. 3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.]

From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth.

4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.]

I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers.

5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon. 6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt.

He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.

Syn. -- To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.

To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

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