TRADU'CE, verb transitive [Latin traduco; trans, over, and duco, to lead.] 1. To represent as blamable; to condemn. The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God's church. 2. To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent. As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing. He had the baseness to traduce me in libel. 3. To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another. From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.]
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