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▪ I. † traˈduct, n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. trāduct-us n. (u-stem), in same sense, f. trādūcĕre to lead across.]
A passage, a channel.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 499 Syne on ane nycht that ilk traduct he brak, Quhair that thair enterit efter at his bak Richt mony sutheron with him that he led.
▪ II. † traˈduct, ppl. a. and n.2 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. trāduct-us, pa. pple. of trādūcĕre: see traduce.]
a. ppl. a. (const. as pa. pple.) Translated.
b. n. A translation.
1534(title) Erasmus's Funus, lately traducte into the vulgare Tonge, at the Request of a certayne Gentylman. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A ij, Whiche is the cause wherfore I haue traducte out of latyn in to frenche this fourth boke. c1645Howell Lett. II. xlviii, Things translated..lose of their primitive vigor..unless a paraphrasticall version be permitted, and then the traduct may exceed the Originall.
▪ III. † traˈduct, v. Obs.
[f. L. trāduct-, ppl. stem of trādūcĕre: see prec.]
trans. To transmit, esp. by generation; to propagate: = traduce 2, 2 b.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. v. 24 Although the Soule be not traducted (as they tearme it) and by generation conferred. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. viii. §2 (1622) 281 Our Nature, as it is now depraued in vs, and by the corrupt Conduicts of our sinfull Parents traducted vnto vs. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xxxiii. 306 This uncleannesse is alway diffused and traducted, as legal uncleannesse also was. 1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. xiii. §6. 256 How this newly-created Soule is infused by God, no man knowes; nor how, if it be traducted from the Parents, both their Soules contribute to the making up a new one.
Hence traˈducter, -or, † (a) one who ‘traducts’; in quot. 1682 = traductionist (obs.); (b) a device on the side of a railway carriage that picks up and deposits mail bags while the train is in motion.
1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 21 So weak an Illustration is this of what these Traducters would have. 1959C. J. Allen Mod. Railways xv. 187 The sacks [of mail]..are then suspended from hinged traductor arms at the van side. 1970Railway Mag. Oct. 545/2 Post Office Sorting van; has letter sorting racks and some vehicles also have nets and traductor arms. 1978O. S. Nock Gt. Western in Colour 147/1 Most of these trains had vans fitted with the traductor apparatus for picking up and setting down mails at speed. |