Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To contribute or lead to a specific result.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To lead; conduct.
  • To bring about.
  • To aid in or contribute toward bringing about a result; lead or tend: followed by an infinitive, or a noun preceded by to: as, temperance and exercise conduce to good, health.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To conduct; to lead; to guide.
  • intransitive verb To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward.

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  • verb To contribute or lead to a specific result.

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  • verb be conducive to

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin condūcere : com-, com- + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin condūcere, present active infinitive of condūcō ("lead together; contribute to something by being useful"), from con + dūcō ("lead").

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Examples

  • There is a line of discrimination, which a cultivated taste in matters of devout observance finds little difficulty in drawing, between such actions and conduct as conduce to the fullness of human life and such as conduce to the good fame of the anthropomorphic divinity; and the activity of the priestly class, in the ideal barbarian scheme, falls wholly on the hither side of this line.

    The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

  • There is a line of discrimination, which a cultivated taste in matters of devout observance finds little difficulty in drawing, between such actions and conduct as conduce to the fullness of human life and such as conduce to the good fame of the anthropomorphic divinity; and the activity of the priestly class, in the ideal barbarian scheme, falls wholly on the hither side of this line.

    Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

  • All the surroundings and employments of the pregnant woman should be such as conduce to cheerfulness and equanimity.

    The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother 1859

  • "An atmosphere of levity does not conduce to the best operation of Planchette."

    Jack London's Short Story: Planchette 2010

  • Living in the thick of the horde did not conduce to monogamy.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • En el sentido antropolgico, tal perspectiva implicara considerar las formas religiosas ms all de la idea tradicional de unidades de observacin y de anlisis aislables, autocontenidas, para ms bien considerarlas en una contextualizacin histrica, poltica, econmica y tecnolgica cambiante, lo cul conduce the un encuadre respecto the la forma en que este tipo de prcticas religiosas constituyen el objeto para pensar las diferencias culturales, la subjetividad, la intersubjetividad y la sociabilidad.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Butcher or any one else whatever may conduce to her comfort and consolation, as it has long been my intention with the entire concurrence of my wife to remit a yearly or monthly allowance for the purpose abovementioned; and which I hope to explain at large immediately.

    Letter 105 2009

  • If it can be seen that the means adopted are really calculated to attain the end, the degree of their necessity, the extent to which they conduce to the end, the closeness of the relationship between the means adopted and the end to be attained, are matters for congressional determination alone.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal Government Has the Power to Civilly Commit Sexually Violent Predators After Federal Incarceration 2010

  • I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to her's or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • My mind has been remarkably vacant, whither leisure and this charming rest from publicity will conduce to my good, I have not yet prove'd; but it is the most agreeable phisic I ever took in my life.

    Letter 278 2009

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  • "He was sent to conduce hither the princess." -

    Sir H. Wotton.

    November 28, 2007

  • Thanks, WeirdNet.

    February 3, 2009