traductionn.

Brit.

/trəˈdʌkʃn/, U.S.

/trəˈdəkʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s traduccion, 1500s– traduction.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French traduction; Latin trāductiōn-, trāductiō.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French traduction (French traduction ) action of delivering (13th cent. in Old French), rhetorical figure involving repetition of a word or of related words (1521), the action of translating into another language, the translated text (both 1540), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin trāductiōn-, trāductiō action of conveying from one place to another, exposure to public scorn, action of transferring (from one status or condition to another), (in rhetoric) repetition with variation, in post-classical Latin also translation (from 12th cent. in British sources; from 15th cent. in continental sources) < trāduct- , past participial stem of trādūcere traduce v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.Compare Catalan traducció (14h cent.), Spanish traducción (15th cent. as tradución ), Portuguese tradução (1662), Italian traduzzione (a1557). With use with reference to conveyance or transfer (see sense 1) compare tradition n. II. With use with reference to translation between languages (see sense 2) compare also earlier traduce v. 1 and traduct v. 1; in later use in this sense apparently reflecting the influence of one or more of the Romance words. With use with reference to defamation (see sense 5) compare earlier traducing n. and traducement n. In use with reference to logic (see sense 7) after deduction n. 6 and induction n. 7; compare traductive adj. 2.

†1. The action or fact of transporting or conveying a person or thing from one place to another; conveyance, transfer, transmission. Obsolete.In later use only in U.S. Law, with reference to the transmission of legal documents from one party to another.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > [noun]

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passinga1382

carriage1423

portage1423

traduction1500

transporting1500

conveyancec1520

transportation1540

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portation1598

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conducta1618

vecture1625

vectitation1656

transit1753

messagerie1878

conveyal1886

intermodalism1979

1500 Traduction & Mariage Princesse (Pynson) sig. aii A remembraunce for the traduction of the Princesse Kateryne doughter to the right high and right myghty Prince the kinge and quene of Spayne.

1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxvi. 182 Concerning the traduction of the..Duke of Orleans into the realm of England there to bee educated.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 910 This part of the Nose if by any casualty it shal happen to be cut off may be elegantly restored by a Traduction of skinne out of the arme.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 198 All the possibility there could be for traduction of the Brutes into America from the known World, could only be by Shipping.

1911 Amer. State Rep. 138 29 Delivery of all sealed instruments..could mean nothing save actual manual traduction, resulting in the transfer of the physical possession of the document in question from the obligor to the obligee.

1927 Insurance Law Jrnl. 69 588 It is the intention of both, that the proposed contract of insurance shall be in force from its issue, and nothing further remains to be done but its manual traduction to the insured.

2. Translation into another language; concrete a translation. Now nonstandard.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun]

remeninga1382

translatinga1382

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reducing?a1425

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reduction1826

transc1877

machine-aided translation1966

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > instance of

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metaphrase1594

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traduct1647

upset1828

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.v I confesse to deserue no merytes for my traduction [Fr. traduction].

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 8 He that hes the gyft of traductione compiling or teching, his faculte is..honest.

1566 I. A. tr. P. de Changy in tr. Pliny Summarie Antiq. Ep. sig. A.iv That in this present worke, being (a traduction of Plinie) thy most Illustrious name shoulde be spoken of.

1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1202 S. Ierosme..(spending his time continually in the traduction [Fr. traduction] of the holie Scriptures).

1663 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes Pref. The verbal Traduction of him into Latin Prose.

1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 5 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Jesuit Rapin's Critical Parallels (whereof the English Traduction was so greedily bought up).

1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 380 As the apology only is worth your reading, get Vassoult's traduction of it [sc. the works of Tertullian], with that gentleman's notes, edit. Paris 1715.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI 149 (note) If there be any Gemman so ignorant as to require a traduction.

1870 Illustr. London News 12 Mar. 282/1 The second piece is a traduction from one of the numerous dramas of M. Scribe.

1913 B. Hastings in B. K. Scott Gender & Modernism ii. v. 181 Whereas this traduction of mine appears to show connected idea [sic], the French original transcends all such commonplace.

1966 Foro Internacional 6 557 The shark and the sardines. Traduction from the Spanish by June Cobb and Raul Osegueda.

a. Chiefly Theology. Transmission, esp. of the soul or of original sin, to one's offspring or posterity; derivation from ancestry or heredity; descent.Common in the 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > hereditary transmission

traduction1546

transmission1871

1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. clxix It [sc. sin] is, saith austen, by traduccion drawne out of Adam in a perpetual ysew into al his posterite.

1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 46 The vertues of men are euerlasting, yea and their bodies by traduction are immortall.

1600 M. Sutcliffe New Challenge iii. 55 in Briefe Replie to Libel Pelagius going about to ouerthrow the traduction of originall sinne in the posteritie of Adam.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 145 A great question, diuersly disputed to and fro, touching the traduction of the soule.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxii. 393 To have Being by Traduction, is, when the soule of the Child is derived from the soule of the Parent, by the meanes of Seed.

a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xi. 107 The traduction of the soul, is inconsistent with the immortality of it.

1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job xv. 65 Man..Who by impure Traduction is unclean, And does to Vice with a strong Byass lean.

1783 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 219/2 There was a traduction of life and spirit from the soul of Adam to his children.

1814 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg Apocalypse Explained V. xvi. 451 The reigning love of parents is by traduction derived into the offspring.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xx. 282 From the first Adam they have received by traduction of being a nature which is animal and perishable.

1911 New Internat. Encycl. (new ed.) V. 550/1 If Christ derived His soul by traduction from Mary, then He acquired also the taint of original sin.

2011 J. E. H. Smith & O. Nachtomy Machines of Nature & Corporeal Substances in Leibniz 6 Both Sennert and the early Leibniz accepted the Lutheran doctrine of traduction of souls.

b. More generally: the action or fact of transmitting or conveying something; transmission (in later use esp. of culture, tradition, etc.); transfer, conveyance; passing on, handing down. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > action of handing down

tradition1483

traduction1596

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iii. sig. C4^v His wearie ghost..through traduction was eftsoones deriued..Into his other brethren, that suruiued, In whom he liu'd a new.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 37 Another Agent, who..proceedeth to obscure the diviner part, and efface all tract of its traduction .

1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 50 The generall conflagration of all by fire might easily be conveyed by Sems off-spring, and traduction from Adam.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 150 Arts have their successive invention and perfection and traduction from one People to another.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 14 His wise Dictates..,which for so many Ages were preserved by oral Traduction, and were called the Precepts of Noah.

1746 H. Winder Crit. & Chronol. Hist. Rise Knowl. II. x. 132 There could not have been a Traduction of that Art from the Hebrews to other Nations, for some Ages at least.

1808 T. Thomas Orig. Heathen Worship i. 12 Which custom obtained also among the Heathens, namely by traduction from the Jews.

1827 G. S. Faber Origin Expiat. Sacrifice 167 That altars and sacrifices were alike independently derived, both to Judaism and to Gentilism, from the common source of primeval Patriarchism: and this traduction he justly deems agreeable to both reason and to history.

2003 G. H. Brown in D. G. Scragg Textual & Material Culture Anglo-Saxon Eng. vii. 183 In the Middle Ages,..orality still played a major, complementary rôle in the traduction of culture.

†c. Something transmitted or derived. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another

traditionc1384

cabal1631

traditional1634

Cabbala1641

traduction1643

lore1663

traditionality1834

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §14 God..loves us but for that part which is as it were himself, and the traduction of his Holy Spirit.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 6 Corrupt traductions, or broken traditions.

1794 G. Wakefield Exam. Paine's Age of Reason 49 If no written memorials of the Jewish and Christian dispensations were..in existence, the present condition of the professors of these systems, as a traduction of believers in a certain system,..cannot be accounted for.

1878 Frank Leslie's Sunday Mag. Mar. 291/1 If it be admitted that man was the consummation toward which all the changes in organic life worked—and his soul, at last, is a traduction from God.

†4. Rhetoric. Repetition of a word in various forms, or of a succession of morphologically closely related words, for rhetorical effect. Cf. polyptoton n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition

repetition1550

traduction1550

reduplication1588

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. C.viii^v Traduccio, Traduccion is, whyche maketh that when all one word is oftentymes vsed, that yet it doth not..displease the mynde.

1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike fol. xxx.^v Traduccion, when al one woorde repeted in another case, not onely is not tedious, but also maketh ye oration more trimme.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §113 The Reports, and Fuges, have an Agreement with the Figure in Rhetorick,..of Repetition, and Traduction.

5. The action or an act of traducing or defaming someone or something; defamation, slander, calumny, traducement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]

teleeOE

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injury?1518

depravation1526

maledictiona1530

abusion?1530

blasphemation1533

infamation1533

insectationa1535

calumning1541

calumniation?1549

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calumnying1563

calumny1564

belying?1565

illingc1575

scandalizing1575

misparlance?1577

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medisance1648

bollocking1653

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blasphemya1656

traduction1656

calumniating1660

blaspheming1677

aspersing1702

blowing1710

infamizing1827

malignation1836

mud-slinging1858

mud-throwing1864

denigration1868

mud-flinging1876

dénigrement1883

malignment1885

injurious falsehood1907

mud-sling1919

bad-mouthing1939

bad mouth1947

trash-talking1974

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Traduction,..a slandering, defaming or traducing.

1786 Morning Post 6 Sept. It is traduction, scandalous traduction, to say, that his Royal Highness..ever discovered opposite propensities to those virtuous ones which characterize his honoured Father.

1798 Bp. R. Watson Addr. People Great Brit. 7 Vulgar traduction of character, party-coloured representation of principle, make no impression on my mind.

1825 Niles' Weekly Reg. 19 Feb. 385/2 The personal traduction of others supposed to stand in the way of his favorite, by subscriptions to newspapers which teemed with scurrilous articles.

1889 Daily News 9 Apr. 2/6 The plaintiffs had a right to have their character preserved free of traduction.

1915 H. Riddler Hyphenations xl. 206 I do not think that the veriest German would give the matter a second thought, if these traductions had been confined to Great Britain.

1978 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 18 I am more concerned that one of Her Majesty's Ministers should stoop to the misrepresentation and traduction of one of the most eminent..defenders of liberal constitutionalism alive today.

2000 M. Walker Makers Amer. Cent. xvi. 225 The outraged Pentagon issued a statement protesting this traduction of the U.S. Army.

†6. Apparently: the course or natural line of something. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun]

runeeOE

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headinga1855

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Pref. sig. B The Methods made use of by Geographers in the Description and Illustration of Kingdoms and Countries are various, Some following the Natural Traduction of Rivers and Mountains, Others the Distinction of People and Inhabitants, [etc.].

7. Logic. A process of making inferences about a particular instance, which proceeds by equivalences or equalities rather than by going from specific to general (as in induction) or from general to specific (as often in deduction). Now rare.This process was not regarded as valid by most logicians, and so the term fell out of general use.In quot. 1855: the transition from deduction to induction.

ΚΠ

1847 J. Broun Let. in Athenæum 19 June 646/1 When, abandoning one scheme of classification, we transfer our knowledge directly to another, we use traduction and traductive syllogism. Thus, in political science, what has been predicated by historians of men classed geographically is transferred to men classed according to constitutions of government by traduction.

1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 76 By a process which modern logicians have happily named ‘Traduction’ we pass from one order of Reasoning [i.e. deductive] to the other [i.e. inductive].

1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xxv. 212 Each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. To this kind of reasoning the apt name of traduction has been given.

1914 G. H. McNair Class Room Logic xvii. 382 Induction, though the most useful form of inference, is the most untrustworthy; whereas traduction is just the reverse of this.

1998 J. Terninko et al. Systematic Innovation Pref. p. xi Traduction, a type of deduction, erroneous from the viewpoint of classical logic, where inferences are made from one specific fact to another specific fact.

Derivatives

traˈductionist n. rare (a) perhaps: a slanderer, defamer, traducer (obsolete); (b) Theology a person who believes that the soul, or original sin, is transmitted to one's offspring (see sense 3a); a traducianist.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > doctrines concerning the soul > [noun] > traducianism > believer in

traducian1617

traducter1682

traducianist1842

traductionist1864

1864 Orchestra 2 Apr. 419/2 Dramas..writ by the noble Knight of Shears, Sir Tom the Traductionist.

1867 Evangelical Q. Rev. Oct. 581 Though the Confessors were Traductionists, they were not influenced by the theory.

2008 B. M. Opalinski Pelagius & Galatians (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Denver & Iliff School of Theol.) i. 8 This stood in opposition to Traductionists, who claimed that the soul pre-existed the body.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	traduction
释义	traductionn. Brit. /trəˈdʌkʃn/, U.S. /trəˈdəkʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s traduccion, 1500s– traduction. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French traduction; Latin trāductiōn-, trāductiō. Etymology: < (i) Middle French traduction (French traduction ) action of delivering (13th cent. in Old French), rhetorical figure involving repetition of a word or of related words (1521), the action of translating into another language, the translated text (both 1540), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin trāductiōn-, trāductiō action of conveying from one place to another, exposure to public scorn, action of transferring (from one status or condition to another), (in rhetoric) repetition with variation, in post-classical Latin also translation (from 12th cent. in British sources; from 15th cent. in continental sources) < trāduct- , past participial stem of trādūcere traduce v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.Compare Catalan traducció (14h cent.), Spanish traducción (15th cent. as tradución ), Portuguese tradução (1662), Italian traduzzione (a1557). With use with reference to conveyance or transfer (see sense 1) compare tradition n. II. With use with reference to translation between languages (see sense 2) compare also earlier traduce v. 1 and traduct v. 1; in later use in this sense apparently reflecting the influence of one or more of the Romance words. With use with reference to defamation (see sense 5) compare earlier traducing n. and traducement n. In use with reference to logic (see sense 7) after deduction n. 6 and induction n. 7; compare traductive adj. 2. †1. The action or fact of transporting or conveying a person or thing from one place to another; conveyance, transfer, transmission. Obsolete.In later use only in U.S. Law, with reference to the transmission of legal documents from one party to another. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] carryinga1382 passinga1382 carriage1423 portage1423 traduction1500 transporting1500 conveyancec1520 transportation1540 convoy1554 wafting1559 transportage1562 convey1587 portation1598 transportance1609 transport1611 weftage1615 conducta1618 vecture1625 vectitation1656 transit1753 messagerie1878 conveyal1886 intermodalism1979 1500 Traduction & Mariage Princesse (Pynson) sig. aii A remembraunce for the traduction of the Princesse Kateryne doughter to the right high and right myghty Prince the kinge and quene of Spayne. 1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxvi. 182 Concerning the traduction of the..Duke of Orleans into the realm of England there to bee educated. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 910 This part of the Nose if by any casualty it shal happen to be cut off may be elegantly restored by a Traduction of skinne out of the arme. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 198 All the possibility there could be for traduction of the Brutes into America from the known World, could only be by Shipping. 1911 Amer. State Rep. 138 29 Delivery of all sealed instruments..could mean nothing save actual manual traduction, resulting in the transfer of the physical possession of the document in question from the obligor to the obligee. 1927 Insurance Law Jrnl. 69 588 It is the intention of both, that the proposed contract of insurance shall be in force from its issue, and nothing further remains to be done but its manual traduction to the insured. 2. Translation into another language; concrete a translation. Now nonstandard. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] remeninga1382 translatinga1382 translationa1382 interpretation1382 interpretingc1384 reducing?a1425 traductiona1533 conversion1586 reddition1609 renderinga1653 rendition1653 transposition1653 transfusion1700 gloss1756 reduction1826 transc1877 machine-aided translation1966 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > instance of drawingc1300 translationa1382 translate?1518 traductiona1533 version1582 conversion1586 metaphrase1594 rendering1637 traduct1647 upset1828 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.v I confesse to deserue no merytes for my traduction [Fr. traduction]. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 8 He that hes the gyft of traductione compiling or teching, his faculte is..honest. 1566 I. A. tr. P. de Changy in tr. Pliny Summarie Antiq. Ep. sig. A.iv That in this present worke, being (a traduction of Plinie) thy most Illustrious name shoulde be spoken of. 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1202 S. Ierosme..(spending his time continually in the traduction [Fr. traduction] of the holie Scriptures). 1663 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes Pref. The verbal Traduction of him into Latin Prose. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 5 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Jesuit Rapin's Critical Parallels (whereof the English Traduction was so greedily bought up). 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 380 As the apology only is worth your reading, get Vassoult's traduction of it [sc. the works of Tertullian], with that gentleman's notes, edit. Paris 1715. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI 149 (note) If there be any Gemman so ignorant as to require a traduction. 1870 Illustr. London News 12 Mar. 282/1 The second piece is a traduction from one of the numerous dramas of M. Scribe. 1913 B. Hastings in B. K. Scott Gender & Modernism ii. v. 181 Whereas this traduction of mine appears to show connected idea [sic], the French original transcends all such commonplace. 1966 Foro Internacional 6 557 The shark and the sardines. Traduction from the Spanish by June Cobb and Raul Osegueda. 3. a. Chiefly Theology. Transmission, esp. of the soul or of original sin, to one's offspring or posterity; derivation from ancestry or heredity; descent.Common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > hereditary transmission traduction1546 transmission1871 1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. clxix It [sc. sin] is, saith austen, by traduccion drawne out of Adam in a perpetual ysew into al his posterite. 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 46 The vertues of men are euerlasting, yea and their bodies by traduction are immortall. 1600 M. Sutcliffe New Challenge iii. 55 in Briefe Replie to Libel Pelagius going about to ouerthrow the traduction of originall sinne in the posteritie of Adam. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 145 A great question, diuersly disputed to and fro, touching the traduction of the soule. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxii. 393 To have Being by Traduction, is, when the soule of the Child is derived from the soule of the Parent, by the meanes of Seed. a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xi. 107 The traduction of the soul, is inconsistent with the immortality of it. 1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job xv. 65 Man..Who by impure Traduction is unclean, And does to Vice with a strong Byass lean. 1783 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 219/2 There was a traduction of life and spirit from the soul of Adam to his children. 1814 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg Apocalypse Explained V. xvi. 451 The reigning love of parents is by traduction derived into the offspring. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xx. 282 From the first Adam they have received by traduction of being a nature which is animal and perishable. 1911 New Internat. Encycl. (new ed.) V. 550/1 If Christ derived His soul by traduction from Mary, then He acquired also the taint of original sin. 2011 J. E. H. Smith & O. Nachtomy Machines of Nature & Corporeal Substances in Leibniz 6 Both Sennert and the early Leibniz accepted the Lutheran doctrine of traduction of souls. b. More generally: the action or fact of transmitting or conveying something; transmission (in later use esp. of culture, tradition, etc.); transfer, conveyance; passing on, handing down. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > action of handing down tradition1483 traduction1596 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iii. sig. C4^v His wearie ghost..through traduction was eftsoones deriued..Into his other brethren, that suruiued, In whom he liu'd a new. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 37 Another Agent, who..proceedeth to obscure the diviner part, and efface all tract of its traduction . View more context for this quotation 1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 50 The generall conflagration of all by fire might easily be conveyed by Sems off-spring, and traduction from Adam. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 150 Arts have their successive invention and perfection and traduction from one People to another. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 14 His wise Dictates..,which for so many Ages were preserved by oral Traduction, and were called the Precepts of Noah. 1746 H. Winder Crit. & Chronol. Hist. Rise Knowl. II. x. 132 There could not have been a Traduction of that Art from the Hebrews to other Nations, for some Ages at least. 1808 T. Thomas Orig. Heathen Worship i. 12 Which custom obtained also among the Heathens, namely by traduction from the Jews. 1827 G. S. Faber Origin Expiat. Sacrifice 167 That altars and sacrifices were alike independently derived, both to Judaism and to Gentilism, from the common source of primeval Patriarchism: and this traduction he justly deems agreeable to both reason and to history. 2003 G. H. Brown in D. G. Scragg Textual & Material Culture Anglo-Saxon Eng. vii. 183 In the Middle Ages,..orality still played a major, complementary rôle in the traduction of culture. †c. Something transmitted or derived. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another traditionc1384 cabal1631 traditional1634 Cabbala1641 traduction1643 lore1663 traditionality1834 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §14 God..loves us but for that part which is as it were himself, and the traduction of his Holy Spirit. View more context for this quotation 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 6 Corrupt traductions, or broken traditions. 1794 G. Wakefield Exam. Paine's Age of Reason 49 If no written memorials of the Jewish and Christian dispensations were..in existence, the present condition of the professors of these systems, as a traduction of believers in a certain system,..cannot be accounted for. 1878 Frank Leslie's Sunday Mag. Mar. 291/1 If it be admitted that man was the consummation toward which all the changes in organic life worked—and his soul, at last, is a traduction from God. †4. Rhetoric. Repetition of a word in various forms, or of a succession of morphologically closely related words, for rhetorical effect. Cf. polyptoton n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition repetition1550 traduction1550 reduplication1588 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. C.viii^v Traduccio, Traduccion is, whyche maketh that when all one word is oftentymes vsed, that yet it doth not..displease the mynde. 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike fol. xxx.^v Traduccion, when al one woorde repeted in another case, not onely is not tedious, but also maketh ye oration more trimme. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §113 The Reports, and Fuges, have an Agreement with the Figure in Rhetorick,..of Repetition, and Traduction. 5. The action or an act of traducing or defaming someone or something; defamation, slander, calumny, traducement. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] teleeOE folk-leasinga1000 tolec1000 wrayingc1000 missaw?c1225 slanderc1290 disclanderc1300 famationc1325 noisec1325 skander1338 missaying1340 misspeecha1375 slanderingc1380 biting1382 defaminga1400 filtha1400 missaya1400 obloquya1438 oblocution?a1439 juroryc1440 defamationa1450 defamea1450 forspeaking1483 depravinga1500 defamya1513 injury?1518 depravation1526 maledictiona1530 abusion?1530 blasphemation1533 infamation1533 insectationa1535 calumning1541 calumniation?1549 abuse1559 calumnying1563 calumny1564 belying?1565 illingc1575 scandalizing1575 misparlance?1577 blot1587 libelling1587 scandal1596 traducement1597 injurying1604 deprave1610 vilifying1611 noisec1613 disfame1620 sycophancy1622 aspersion1633 disreport1640 medisance1648 bollocking1653 vilification1653 sugillation1654 blasphemya1656 traduction1656 calumniating1660 blaspheming1677 aspersing1702 blowing1710 infamizing1827 malignation1836 mud-slinging1858 mud-throwing1864 denigration1868 mud-flinging1876 dénigrement1883 malignment1885 injurious falsehood1907 mud-sling1919 bad-mouthing1939 bad mouth1947 trash-talking1974 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Traduction,..a slandering, defaming or traducing. 1786 Morning Post 6 Sept. It is traduction, scandalous traduction, to say, that his Royal Highness..ever discovered opposite propensities to those virtuous ones which characterize his honoured Father. 1798 Bp. R. Watson Addr. People Great Brit. 7 Vulgar traduction of character, party-coloured representation of principle, make no impression on my mind. 1825 Niles' Weekly Reg. 19 Feb. 385/2 The personal traduction of others supposed to stand in the way of his favorite, by subscriptions to newspapers which teemed with scurrilous articles. 1889 Daily News 9 Apr. 2/6 The plaintiffs had a right to have their character preserved free of traduction. 1915 H. Riddler Hyphenations xl. 206 I do not think that the veriest German would give the matter a second thought, if these traductions had been confined to Great Britain. 1978 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 18 I am more concerned that one of Her Majesty's Ministers should stoop to the misrepresentation and traduction of one of the most eminent..defenders of liberal constitutionalism alive today. 2000 M. Walker Makers Amer. Cent. xvi. 225 The outraged Pentagon issued a statement protesting this traduction of the U.S. Army. †6. Apparently: the course or natural line of something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] runeeOE coursec1290 draughta1325 careerc1534 addression1602 tendence1644 tendency1654 ducturea1674 traduction1675 headinga1855 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Pref. sig. B The Methods made use of by Geographers in the Description and Illustration of Kingdoms and Countries are various, Some following the Natural Traduction of Rivers and Mountains, Others the Distinction of People and Inhabitants, [etc.]. 7. Logic. A process of making inferences about a particular instance, which proceeds by equivalences or equalities rather than by going from specific to general (as in induction) or from general to specific (as often in deduction). Now rare.This process was not regarded as valid by most logicians, and so the term fell out of general use.In quot. 1855: the transition from deduction to induction. ΚΠ 1847 J. Broun Let. in Athenæum 19 June 646/1 When, abandoning one scheme of classification, we transfer our knowledge directly to another, we use traduction and traductive syllogism. Thus, in political science, what has been predicated by historians of men classed geographically is transferred to men classed according to constitutions of government by traduction. 1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 76 By a process which modern logicians have happily named ‘Traduction’ we pass from one order of Reasoning [i.e. deductive] to the other [i.e. inductive]. 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xxv. 212 Each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. To this kind of reasoning the apt name of traduction has been given. 1914 G. H. McNair Class Room Logic xvii. 382 Induction, though the most useful form of inference, is the most untrustworthy; whereas traduction is just the reverse of this. 1998 J. Terninko et al. Systematic Innovation Pref. p. xi Traduction, a type of deduction, erroneous from the viewpoint of classical logic, where inferences are made from one specific fact to another specific fact. Derivatives traˈductionist n. rare (a) perhaps: a slanderer, defamer, traducer (obsolete); (b) Theology a person who believes that the soul, or original sin, is transmitted to one's offspring (see sense 3a); a traducianist. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > doctrines concerning the soul > [noun] > traducianism > believer in traducian1617 traducter1682 traducianist1842 traductionist1864 1864 Orchestra 2 Apr. 419/2 Dramas..writ by the noble Knight of Shears, Sir Tom the Traductionist. 1867 Evangelical Q. Rev. Oct. 581 Though the Confessors were Traductionists, they were not influenced by the theory. 2008 B. M. Opalinski Pelagius & Galatians (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Denver & Iliff School of Theol.) i. 8 This stood in opposition to Traductionists, who claimed that the soul pre-existed the body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1500
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