traducev.
/trəˈdjuːs/, /trəˈdʒuːs/, U.S. /trəˈd(j)us/ 1. transitive. To put (a text, etc.) into another form or mode of expression, esp. into another language; to translate, render; to alter, modify, reduce. Now nonstandard.In later use often punning on sense 4; cf. sense 7.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)]
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wendeOE
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writec1275
drawa1325
translatea1375
expound1377
takea1382
interpret1382
transpose1390
remue?a1400
renderc1400
put?a1425
to draw outa1450
reducec1450
compile1483
redige?1517
make1529
traducea1533
traduct1534
converta1538
do1561
to set out1597
transcribe1639
throw1652
metaphrase1868
versionize1874
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) Prol. sig. B.vv The auctoures and writers are dispraysed, not of them that can traduce [Fr. traduire] and compose werkes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at B That whyche they [sc. the Grecians] wryte with P. and Ph. is traduced in the Latine in B.
1574 J. Jones (title) A Briefe, Excellent and profitable Discourse of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing things..Collected and tradused aswel forth of the best olde Wryters, as out of the new.
1611 A. Munday Briefe Chron. 182 Their statutes were now traduced into the Latine tongue.
1674 J. Owen Vindic. Disc. Commun. 8 Being all of them traduced, and some of them transcribed from the Writings of the Socinians.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. Observ. 54 This verse..has been traduc'd into the utmost obscenity.
1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. at Bum-fiddle Mons-obsequens..or else from two French words, which we have traduced into bum fiddle.
1814 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 12 73 Milton has been traduced into French and overturned into Dutch.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iii. 45 If ye canna traduce to me a page o' Virgil.
1919 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 14 215/2 For full appreciation we must forego traducing into modern English and quote from that contemporary version which Jehan de Hersin put forth in French.
2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 287 She well knew Aesop in Latin, and..had traduced it into the vulgar tongue of Italia.
a. transitive. To convey from one place to another; to transport. Obsolete.
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society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)]
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ferryOE
weighOE
bearOE
take?a1160
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carry1348
passa1350
tow1391
geta1393
convey1393
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transport1483
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convoy1500
traduce1535
port1566
repair1612
vehiculate1628
transmute1683
transplant1769
gallant1806
transit1859
inveigh1878
waltz1884
sashay1928
conduct-
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport
fangOE
flitc1175
convey1393
wainc1400
transport1483
traduce1535
port1566
1535 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VII. 610 The saide Duke of Angolesme shalbe traduced and brought hither into this Realme.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 119 Matter is not traduced thorough the Body as it were by stone-gutters.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Fernelius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 706 Evil Demons..exagitating and disturbing the profitable humours.., partly by traducing the noxious into the principal parts.
b. transitive. To transfer. Obsolete.With quot. 1640 cf. sense 7.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]
remuea1325
movea1382
translatea1382
transfer1382
transfigurec1384
removea1387
to turn overa1425
transume1483
to carry about1496
traduce1546
transplant1555
transact1621
transmigrate1635
hand1642
to make over1713
recover1719
to carry over1850
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. xiii. 25 This parte Socrates traduced and applyed from heauenly thinges, to the vse of lyfe.
1619 A. Gorges tr. F. Bacon Wisedome Ancients 83 In his description the Allegorie may bee applied and traduced to manners [L. Allegoria ad mores deflectit, & traducitur].
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 441 An auncient and famous Kingdome,..not long ago traduced to the Castilian King by marriage.
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie iii. i. 218 It is traduced from that naturall sence, and used to signifie a man of some eminence in place and government.
3. † a. transitive. To pass on to offspring, or to posterity; to transmit, esp. by procreation. Obsolete.† b. transitive. To produce as offspring; to propagate. Obsolete.In passive use not always clearly distinguishable from sense 3a.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > cause to descend by inheritance
traduce1568
convey1592
bequeath1614
transmit1629
deduce1633
to hand down1722
to pass down1854
1568 H. Billingsley tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Learned Comm. Epist. Romanes f. 85v To put vs in mynde, that originall sinne, is by generation traduced [L. traduci] from the parentes into vs.
1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes (new ed.) I. §29 Vertue is not traduced in [ Wks. (1625) by] propagation, nor learning bequeathed by our will, to our heires.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 329 This complexion..is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermaticall part traduced from father unto son. View more context for this quotation
1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 399 The evangelical church..composing those religious models of Invocation and Thanksgiving, which they have traduced unto us as the Liturgies of St. James, Basil, and Chrysostom.
1843 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland III. 426 I was consated [i.e. conceited] enough to be proud at traducing to her my own family's music.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)]
kenc825
begeteOE
strenec893
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breeda1250
kenec1275
felefolda1300
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procreatea1525
propagate1535
generate1552
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kind1596
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pullulate1602
traduct1604
progenerate1611
store1611
spawna1616
spawna1617
reproduce1650
propage1695
to make a baby1911
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 27 For though from bodies she [sc. Nature] can bodies bring, Yet could she neuer soules from soules traduce.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) vii. 409 There must be a supply of soules for men to be borne,..or soules must be traduced by propagation, as bodies are.
a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 73 When God traduc'd by His propitious Might, Meal from Meal, Oyl from Oyl, as Light from Light.
c. transitive. Chiefly Theology. To derive, deduce, or obtain (something, esp. a soul or original sin) from a specified source. Frequently in passive. Cf. traducian n. and adj.In passive use not always clearly distinguishable from sense 3a.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] > derive, come from, or originate in
fet1393
to take one's spring from (also out of)c1440
to come out of ——1481
extract1490
deduct1530
fetch1552
desume1564
deduce1565
father1577
derive1600
traduce1615
raisea1631
originate1653
to be sourced in1941
1615 Life, Death & Actions Lady Iane Gray sig. B3 Her Religion being traduc'd from the instructions of her first Parents, and seconded by the learned Admonitions of them of the same opinion.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. Advts. to Rdr. sig. *2 Physiologick Contemplations; which he..traduced, originally.., from the sacred Oracles lodged in the Jewish Church.
1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 30 A great Part of us, is certainly traduc'd from our Parents.
1751 R. Hurd Disc. Poet. Imitation in Horace Epistola ad Augustum 131 All our commonest notices of right and wrong have been traduced from antient tradition.
1815 W. B. Collyer Lect. Script. Parables iii. 89 The philosophy of the Eastern nations follows of course, it being confessedly traduced from the Egyptian.
1874 J. Miller Fetich in Theol. i. vii. 29 A man who believes that souls are freshly created.., that is, the infants of our species, not being traduced from Adam, but directly created in their sins by the Almighty.
1915 C. C. Smith Parent, Child, & Church v. 169 If the soul is traduced from the parent, we may properly speak of ‘inbred sin’.
2011 S. J. G. Burton Hallowing of Logic (2012) ii. iv. 152 Telesio..held that man has two different souls: the one a tenuous, fiery body traduced from his parents.., the other an immortal soul.
4.
a. transitive. To speak ill of, esp. (now always) falsely or maliciously; to defame, malign, vilify, slander; †to blame, censure (obsolete).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] > censure or condemn
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carp1591
censure1605
convince?1606
syndic1609
syndicate1610
to check at1642
reprimand1660
impeach1813
to stroke over1822
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
belie?c1225
betell?c1225
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skandera1300
disclanderc1300
wrenchc1300
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bite1330
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slanderc1340
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blasphemec1386
afamec1390
fame1393
to blow up?a1400
defamea1400
noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
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injury1484
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disfamea1533
misreporta1535
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dishonest?c1550
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injure?a1600
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bedirt1622
soil1641
disfigurea1643
sycophant1642
spatter1645
sugillate1647
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bedung1655
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mischieve1656
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calumny1895
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bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
1581 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1840) II. 534 The Kirk beand traducit be pasquilles and infamous lybells.
1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions ii. i. 41 They could not endure..to heare her so traduced into all hatred and obloquy.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. ii. sig. Dv My selfe then will traduce his guilt.
1655 J. Lightfoot Harmony New-Test. ii. 121 There were not a few that thought basely of him,..and traduced him and his Doctrine.
1728 T. Gordon in tr. Tacitus Wks. I. 91 They..traduced him, libelled him, and even mobbed him.
1763 North Briton 12 Aug. 188 The audacious Plain Dealer..has falsely accused them of villifying Majesty, and traducing their prince.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. xi. 352 This curious insect [sc. the earwig] so unjustly traduced by a vulgar prejudice.
1895 Argosy Sept. 500/1 Never was a youth more unjustly traduced.
1922 New Republic 22 Nov. 332/1 One wonders why Mr. Stoddard should have wasted so much spleen in traducing the leaders of the revolution.
1965 L. Trilling Beyond Culture (1967) 13 In its ivory towers reality was alternately ignored and traduced.
2001 A. Sayle Dog Catcher 84 The work of his heroes, the architects Mies van de Rohe and le Corbusier, had been unfairly traduced by the enemies of progress.
b. transitive. With complement. To falsely or maliciously speak of as; (formerly also) †to slanderously state or affirm (something) to be; to falsely or maliciously blame for, accuse of, charge with (obsolete). Now somewhat rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] > often falsely
surmit1411
slanderc1430
traduce1585
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection 61 Certaine Bishops of the East..traduced him as an heretike.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 437 They are confuted, who traduce the English tounge to be like a beggers patched Cloke, which they should rather compayre to a Posey of sweetest flowers.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 59 The Papists every where traduced the Queen for cruelty.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 39 I cannot warrant any man who hence took occasion to traduce him of Popery.
1788 Parl. Reg. Ireland VIII. 232 That other argument which traduces the landed interest of Ireland as an extortioner.
1796 A. Thomson tr. Suetonius Lives First Twelve Cæsars 450 Traducing him [sc. Nero Claudius Cæsar] for his folly.
1840 Ann. Reg. 1839 Hist. Europe 129/1 He had..been surprised at being traduced with having ill-treated his sovereign.
1900 Macmillan's Mag. July 166/2 Traducing me as a libertine, a butterfly, a notoriously careless person in money-matters.
2001 A. Fairclough Better Day Coming vii. 150 Black politicians traduced him as an unprincipled demagogue.
5. transitive. To expose to contempt; to bring discredit upon; to dishonour, disgrace.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak (one) shamec950
to bring, make to shondOE
awemOE
shamec1175
unmenskc1225
to bring, shape, turn to shamea1250
to do villainy or a villainy1303
to bring, drive to scornc1320
honisha1325
dishonesta1382
unhonourc1384
defamea1387
slandera1387
disworshipa1450
vituper1484
disfamea1533
to shend ofc1540
defect1542
dishonour1568
disgrace1573
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mishonour1576
yshend1579
scandalize1583
traduce1605
beclown1609
dedecorate1609
disdignify1625
vilify1651
lynch1836
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. D2 That which is most traduced to contempt. View more context for this quotation
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 159 By their own ignoble actions they traduce, that is, disgrace their ancestors.
1848 K. H. Digby Compitum I. iii. 76 The false wise, who,..with the same breath would traduce all holy discipline and all manly thought!
1892 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 77 332/1 A few people..who traduce a sacred principle by masquerading under the guise of co-operation.
1986 ‘A. Cross’ No Word from Winifred xvi. 239 You must agree to meet him here, and to traduce your Girl Scout soul far enough to lie about your being alone here.
2004 Newsweek 7 June 86/2 He traduced the First Amendment by signing into law that expansion of government regulation of what can be spent to finance speech about government.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] > lead into error, mislead
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forlereOE
beleada1000
forleseOE
misteachOE
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mislearOE
misleadOE
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miswrest?a1475
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scandalize1538
misadvise1548
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misdirect1603
traduce1613
to throw (also put) off the scenta1637
misswaya1640
undirect1647
mislight1648
widdlea1689
1613 Golden Meane 57 It is a greater blemish to the iudgement of a Prince so traduced, not to examine the particulars why he doth reiect a worthy subiect.
a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 286 How those abortiue statists..swarve from theire said first holy principles, traduced to the possitiue opposition therof.
1719 Boston News-let. 19 Jan. 1/2 You have laid your Charge as if you expected no determination and only aim'd to deceive your Prince, and traduce your Governour.
a1919 R. A. Webb Christian Salvation (1921) xvi. 214 That world which is to be destroyed is the world which he [sc. Satan] rules, which he has traduced from the service and worship of God.
7. transitive. To pervert, corrupt, misrepresent, falsify; to turn into something bad.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > misrepresent [verb (transitive)]
disguise1398
colourc1400
abuse?a1439
wrest1524
beliec1531
to spell (one) backward1600
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falsify1630
misrepresent1633
traduce1643
garble1659
miscolour1661
misrender1674
travesty1825
misdescribe1827
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misportray1925
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 31 He there cites not the Law of Moses, but the licencious Glosse which traduc't the Law.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 200 [It] hath in truth traduced the whole Scheme of Christianity into Burlesque.
1766 London Mag. Oct. 512/1 Its gallant conqueror basely traduced into a mean plunderer.
1885 A. I. Ritchie Mrs Dymond ii. vi. 174 To turn out a bad engraving,..to traduce a Titian or a Velasquez, it is like a blasphemy against the spirit of art.
1977 D. N. Robinson in J. Ward Psychology Pref. p. xxviii We must be wary..of the impulse to read too much ‘naturalism’ into his developmental psychology, for fear of traducing it into a form of materialism.
2008 Independent 13 Nov. 39/3 (heading) Social work has been traduced into managerialism.
Derivatives
traˈduced adj.
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > going astray > led astray
seduced1584
traduced1605
seducted1773
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [adjective] > misled, led astray
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abuseda1500
misguided1500
traduced1605
miscounselled1643
misinclineda1716
1605 J. Smyth Paterne True Prayer Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I most humbly beseech your Honour to vouchsafe the patronage of this traduced Pamphlet.
?a1625 Lawes of Candy iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhh2/2 I can forget the weaknesse Of the traduced souldiers.
a1711 T. Ken Urania in Wks. (1721) IV. 433 What they all clearly saw We only from traduc'd Sensation draw.
1840 Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati) 4 Sept. 79/3 You will oblige a traduced minister of our Church..by publishing the following communication.
1996 Prospect Mar. 52/1 I want to clear the record over this absurdly traduced individual.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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