traditor 
Aition. Cf. traitor, a doublet of traditor."} One 
of those early Christians who, in time of perse- 
cution, gave up to the officers of the law the 
Scriptures, or any of the holy vessels, or the 
names of their brethren. 
There were in the Church itself Traditors content to de- 
liver up the books of God by composition, to the end their 
own lives might be spared. Hooker, Ecclcs. Polity, v. 02. 
tradotto (tra-dot'to), . [It., pp. of tradurre, 
transpose : see traduce.'] In music, transposed ; 
arranged. 
tradrillet, Same as tredille. Lamb, Mrs. Bat- 
tle on Whist. 
traduce (tra-dus'), <; pret. and pp. traduced, 
ppr. traducing. [=F. traduire = Sp. traducir = 
Pg. traduzir == It. tradurre, transfer, translate, 
< L. traducere, bring or carry over, lead along, 
exhibit as a spectacle, display, disgrace, dis- 
honor, transfer, derive, also train, propagate, 
< trans, across, + ducere, lead: see duct. Cf. 
transduction.] If. To pass along; transmit. 
It is not in the power of parents to traduce holiness to 
their children. Bp. Hall, The Angel and Zachary. 
From these only the race of perfect animals were pro; 
agated, and traduced over the earth. Sir M. 
To this it is offered that the Soul traduced is from the 
woman only. Evelyn, True Religion, I. 167. 
2f. To transfer; translate; arrange under an- 
other form. 
Oftentimes the auctours and writers are dispraised, not 
of them that can traduce and compose workes, but of 
theim that cannot vnderstande theim, and yet lease reade 
theim. Golden Boke, Prol. (Richardson. ) 
3f. To hold up; exhibit; expose; represent. 
For means of employment, that which is most traduced 
to contempt is that the government of youth is common- 
ly allotted to them. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 
The removing of Liturgie he traduces to be don onely as 
a thing plausible to the People. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xvi. 
4. To misrepresent; hold up or expose to 
ridicule or calumny ; defame ; calumniate ; 
vilify. 
If lam 
Traduced by ignorant tongues, ... let me say 
'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake 
That virtue must go through. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 72. 
5f. To draw aside from duty; lead astray; 
seduce. 
I can never forget the weakness of the traduced sol- 
diers. Beau, and Fl. (Imp. Diet.} 
=Syn. 4. Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse. 
traducement (tra-dus'ment), n. [< traduce + 
-ment.~] The act of traducing; misrepresenta- 
tion ; defamation ; calumny ; obloquy. 
Rome must know 
The value of her own ; 'twere a concealment 
Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, 
To hide your doings. Shak., Cor., i. 9. 22. 
traducent (tra-du'sent), a. [< L. traducen(t-)s, 
ppr. of traducere, traduce : see traduce.'] Slan- 
dering; slanderous. [Rare.] 
traducer (tra-du'ser), . One who traduces, in 
any sense; especially, a slanderer; a calum- 
niator. 
He found both spears and arrows in the mouths of his 
traducers. Bp. Hall, Balm of Gilead, v. 2. 
traducian (tra-du'shian), n. [< LL. traducia- 
nus, < L. trad'ux, a branch or layer of a vine 
trained for propagation, < traducere, lead along, 
train, propagate: see traduce.'] In theol., a be- 
liever in traducianism. 
traducianism (tra-du'shian-izm), n. [< tra- 
ducian + -ism.] In theol., the doctrine that 
both the body and the soul of man are propa- 
gated, as opposed to creationism, which regards 
every soul as a new creation out of nothing. 
Also called gencrationism. 
The theory of Traducianism maintains that both the 
soul and body of the individual man are propagated. It 
refers the creative act mentioned in Gen. i. 27 to the hu- 
man nature, or race, and not to a single individual mere- 
ly. It considers the work of creating mankind de nihilo 
as entirely completed upon the sixth day ; and that since 
that sixth day the Creator has, in this world, exerted no 
strictly creative energy. 
Shedd, Hist. Christian Doctrine, n. 13. 
traducianist (tra-du'shian-ist), n. [< tradu- 
cian + -1st.] A traducian. Imp. Diet. 
traducible (tra-du'si-bl), a. [< traduce + 
-Me.'] If. Capable of being derived, trans- 
mitted, or propagated. 
Though oral tradition might be a competent discoverer 
of the original of a kingdom, yet such a tradition were in- 
competent without written monuments to derive to us the 
original laws, because they are of a complex nature, and 
therefore not orally traducible to so great a distance of 
ages. Sir M. Hale. 
2. Capable of being traduced or maligned. 
Imp. Diet. 
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traducingly (tra-du'sing-li), adv. In a tradu- 
cing or defamatory manner; slanderously; by 
way of defamation. Imp. Diet. 
traductt (tra-dukf), v. t. [< L. traductus, pp. of 
traducere, lead along, derive: see traduce.] To 
derive or deduce ; also, to transmit; propagate. 
No soul of man from seed traducted is. 
Dr. H. More, Frse-existency of the Soul, st. 91. 
traductt (tra-dukf), . [< L. traductus, pp. of 
traducere, transfer: see traduce.] That which 
is transferred or translated; a translation. 
The Traduct may exceed the Original. 
Ilowell, Letters, ii. 47. 
traduction (tra-duk'shon), n. [< F. traduction 
= Pr. traductio = Sp. iraduccion = Pg. traduc- 
yao = It. traduziotie, translation, < L. traduc- 
tio^-), < traducere, pp. traductus, lead across, 
transfer, propagate : see traduce.] If. Deriva- 
tion from one of the same kind ; propagation ; 
reproduction; transmission; inheritance. 
If by traduction came thy mind, 
Our wonder is the less to find 
A soul so charming from a stock so good ; 
Thy father was transfus'd into thy blood. 
Dryden, To Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 1. 23. 
2t. Tradition; transmission from one to an- 
other. 
Traditional communication and traduction of truths. 
Sir M. Hale. 
3. The act of giving origin to a soul by procrea- 
tion. Compare traducianism. 
A third sort would have the soul of man (as of other liv- 
ing creatures) to be propagated by the seminal traduction 
of the natural parents successively, from the first person 
and womb that ever conceived. 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 149. 
4f. Translation from one language into an- 
other; a translation. 
Those translators . . . that effect 
Their word-for-word traductions, where they lose 
The free grace of their natural dialect, 
And shame their authors with a forced gloss. 
Chapman, Homer, To the Reader, 1. 104. 
The verbal traduction of him into Latin prose, than 
which nothing seems more raving. 
Cowley, Pindaric Odes, Pref. 
5. Conveyance; transportation; act of trans- 
ferring: as, "the traduction of animals from 
Europe to America by shipping," Sir M. Hale. 
[Bare.] 6. Transition. [Rare.] 
The reports and fugues have an agreement with the fig- 
ures in rhetorick of repetition and traduction. Bacon. 
traductive (tra-duk'tiv), a. [< L. tradnctus, 
pp. of traducere, derive (see traduce), + -we.'] 
Deduced or deducible ; derivable. [Rare.] 
I speak not here concerning extrinsical means of deter- 
mination, as traductive interpretations, councils, fathers, 
popes, and the like. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 328. 
Trafalgar (tra-fal'gar), . [So called with 
ref. to Trafalgar (either to the battle or to the 
square in London named from it).] An Eng- 
lish body of type, smaller than canon, equal to 
the American 44-point or meridian, or four 
lines of small pica. 
traffic (traf 'ik), n. [Early mod. E. traffick, traf- 
fike, traffique ; < OF. traflque, F. trafic = Pr. 
trafec, trafey = Sp. trdfico, trafago = Pg. tra- 
fico, trafego = It. traffico (ML. refl. trafficum, 
trafica), traffic; origin unknown.] 1. An in- 
terchange of goods, merchandise, or property 
of any kind between countries, communities, 
or individuals ; trade ; commerce. 
It hath in solemn synods been decreed . . . 
To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. 
Shak., C. of E., i. 1. IB. 
2. The coming and going of persons or the 
transportation of goods along a line of travel, 
as on a road, railway, canal, or steamship route. 
Traffic during that thirty-six hours was entirely sus- 
pended. T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 13. 
Hence 3. The persons or goods, collectively, 
passing or carried along a route or routes. 4. 
Dealings; intercourse. 5t. A piece of busi- 
ness; a transaction. 
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love . . . 
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage. 
Shak., R. and J., Prol. 
I referre you then to the Ambassages, Letters, Traf- 
fiques, and prohibition of Tra/tques . . . which happened 
in the time of king Richard the 2. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, To the Reader. 
6. The subject of traffic ; commodities mar- 
keted. [Rare.] 
You'll see a draggled damsel, here and there, 
From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. 
Gay, Trivia, ii. 10. 
Through traffic. See through^. 
traffic (traf'ik), v.; pret. and pp. trafficked, ppr. 
trafficking. [Early mod. E. traffick, traffike, traf- 
tragacanth 
fique; < F. trafiqucr = Sp. traficar, trafagar = 
Pg. traficar, trafeguear = It. trafficare (ML. refl. 
traficare, traffir/are), traffic; from the noun.] 
1. intrans. 1. To trade; pass goods and com- 
modities from one person to another for an 
equivalent in goods or money; buy and sell 
wares or commodities ; carry on commerce. 
Despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 131. 
At twentie yeares they may traffike, buy, sell, and cir- 
cumuent all they can. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 193. 
2. To deal ; have business or dealings. 
It is a greate trauell to traffike or deale with furious, 
impatient, and men of euill suffering, for that they are 
importable to serue, and of conuersation verie perillous. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 116. 
How did you dare 
To trade and traffic with Macbeth 
In riddles and affairs of death? 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 5. 4. 
II. trans. 1. To exchange in traffic ; barter, 
or buy and sell. 
In affairs 
Of princes, subjects cannot traffic rights 
Inherent to the crown. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iv, 1. 
2. To bargain; negotiate; arrange. [Rare.] 
He trafficked the return of King James. 
Dntmmond, Hist. James I., p. 14. (Latham.) 
traffickablet (traf'ik-a-bl), a. [Early mod. E. 
traffiqueable ; < traffic(k) + -able.] Capable of 
being disposed of in traffic ; marketable. 
Money itself is not onely the price of all commodities 
in all civil nations, but it is also, in some cases, a traffique- 
aUe commodity. Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience, i. 1. 
trafficker (traf'ik-er), n. [Early mod. E. traf- 
ficker; < traffic(k) + -er 1 .] One who traffics; 
one who carries on commerce ; a merchant ; a 
trader: often used in a derogatory sense. 
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crown- 
ing city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers 
are the honourable of the earth? Isa. xxiii. 8. 
His Grace of Norfolk, a bon vivant surrounded by men 
who kept the table in a roar, and a famous trafficker in 
boroughs. E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 133. 
trafficless (traf'ik-les), a. [< traffic + -less.] 
Destitute of traffic or trade. Imp. Diet. 
traffic-manager (traf'ik-man"aj-er), n. The 
manager of the traffic on a railway, canal, or 
the like. 
traffic-return (traf'ik-re-tern"), n. A period- 
ical statement of the receipts for goods and 
passengers carried, as on a railway or canal. 
tragacanth (trag'a-kanth), n. [Formerly also 
dragagant, also dragant, draganth = D. Sw. 
Dan. dragant,(. OF. dragagant, dragacantlie, dra- 
gant, F. tragacanthe = Sp. tragacanto, traga- 
canta = Pg. tragacanto = It. tragacanta, dra- 
gante, gum, Olt. also tragaeante, the shrub, < L. 
tragacanthum, also corruptly dragantum, ML. 
also tragagantum, tragantum, gum tragacanth, 
< tragacantha, < Or. Tpay&KavSa, rpayanavdof, a 
shrub (Astragalus gummifer) producing gum 
tragacanth; lit. ' goat-thorn, '< rpdyof, a goat, + 
iiKavQa, thorn.] A mucilaginous substance, the 
product of several low, spiny shrubs of the ge- 
nus Astragalus, among 
them A. gummifer, A. 
eriostylus, A. adscen- 
dens, A. bracTiycalyx, 
and A. microcephalus, 
plants found in the 
mountains of Asia 
Minor and neighbor- 
ing lands. The gum is 
not a secretion of the sap, 
but a transformation of the 
cells of the pith and medul- 
laryrays. Itexudes through 
natural fissures andthrough 
incisions, forming respec- 
tively vermicelli and leaf 
or flake tragacanth. It is 
without smell, and nearly 
tasteless. Its characteris- 
tic, though not largest, ele- 
ment is bassorin. In water 
it swells and disintegrates 
into an adhesive paste, but, except a small portion, does 
not dissolve. Tragacanth is emollient and demulcent, 
little given internally, however, on account of its insolu- 
bility. Its chief use in pharmacy is to impart firmness to 
pills, lozenges, etc. It is also made into a mucilage, par- 
ticularly for marbling books, and is used as a stiffening for 
crapes, calicoes, etc. Also called fjum dragon, dracanth, 
and (frequently) gum tragacanth. African tragacanth. 
Same as Senegal tragacant h. Compound powder of 
tragacanth. See powder. Hog-tragacanth, various 
mixtures of inferior gums, used occasionally in marbling 
books. Indian tragacanth. Same as Kuteera gum 
(see gum%), which includes, besides the product of Cochlo- 
spennum Gosfypium, that of Sterculia urens and proba- 
bly other sterculias. Senegal tragacanth, a substance 
nearly identical with the Indian tragacanth, produced 
abundantly by Stfrculia Tragacantha, 
Astragalus jruntmifcr, a plan; 
yielding tragacanth. 
