资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Traduction \Tra*duc"tion\, n. [L. traductio a transferring: cf.
   F. traduction translation. See {Traduce}.]
   1. Transmission from one to another. [Obs.]

            Traditional communication and traduction of truths.
                                                  --Sir M. Hale.

   2. Translation from one language to another. [Obs.]

   3. Derivation by descent; propagation. [R.]

            If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the
            less to find A soul so charming from a stock so
            good.                                 --Dryden.

   4. The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.]
      ``The traduction of brutes.'' --Sir M. Hale.

   5. Transition. [Obs.] --Bacon.

   6. (Logic) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion
      applies to just such an object as each of the premises
      applies to. --Jevons.