traduce
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
transitive
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 […]
To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
archaic, transitive
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 […].
Where it comes from
From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to lead”). Doublet of transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry traduce (CC BY-SA 4.0).