Definition of "traducian" []

• One who believes that a child's soul is inherited from its parents. (noun)
• Pertaining to the belief that one's soul is inherited from one's parents. (adjective)

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• "The fatal sophistry in the traducian account of the transmission of souls may be illustrated in the following manner."
• "By his doctrine of the preëxistence of souls Origen excluded both the creation and traducian hypotheses of the origin of the soul.] [Footnote 777: Clement (see Strom."