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.
Syn. — To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate;
decry; slander.
Tra*duce"ment (?), n. The act of traducing; misrepresentation;
ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak.
Tra*du"cent (?), a. [L. traducens, p. pr. of traducere. See Traduce.]
Slanderous. [R.] Entick.
Tra*du"cer (?), n. 1. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp.
Hall.