traduce

traduce is a Verb

Definition:

[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. Sir M. Hale.

[4] To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.

[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. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden.