traduce

verb3

1. •
   To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

   • This heauy headed reueale east and west / Makes vs tradust, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swinish phrase / Soyle our addition […] — 1599
2. •
   (no longer used) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
3. •
   (no longer used) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

   • However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son […]. — 1650