Meanings (ES + gloss)
calumniar • difamar
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.
Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable—but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable.—We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each oth…
legar
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…
traducir
To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his…