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conduce

/kənˈdjuːs/ UK
/-ˈd͡ʒuːs/ UK
/kənˈd(j)us/ US

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From Late Middle English conducen (“to guide, lead; (surgery) to draw together (edges of a wound, or parts of a torn sinew); to set (a broken bone)”), borrowed from Latin condūcere, the present active infinitive of condūcō (“to bring, draw, or lead together, assemble, collect; to contribute to something by being useful, be of use, be conducive to”), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several things) + dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead, lead away”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull; to lead (pull behind oneself)”)). Doublet of conduct and conn.

verb conduces · conducing · conduced · conduce

formal, obsolete, transitive To cause (something) to occur; to bring about. And vvell aſſured you may be, the King's Highneſs upon Sight of theſe your ſaid Letters, not only much commended your great Diligence and provident Dexterity, in the vviſe conducing of theſe his vveighty Matters, vvhereby ye have deſerved his ſingular Favour and Thanks, but alſo took great Rejoicing
formal, obsolete, transitive To contribute (something).
also, figuratively, formal, obsolete, transitive To conduct or lead (someone or something). At laſt to conduce things to ſome order out of this Chaos of confuſion, their moſt learned Hiſtorian Elifarni, tooke vpon him to make ſtraight theſe crooked poſtures: […]
formal, obsolete, rare, transitive To advantage or benefit (someone or something).
Similar: profit
formal, obsolete, possibly, rare, transitive To carry on or continue (an activity). VVithin my ſoule there doth conduce a fight / Of this ſtrange nature, that a thing inſeparat, / Diuides more vvider then the skie and earth: […]
formal, intransitive To contribute or lead to a specific result. The reaſons you alleadge, do more conduce / To the hot paſſion of diſtempred blood, / Then to make vp a free determination / Tvvixt right and vvrong: […]
Similar: promote, subserve · Opposite: disconduce
formal, intransitive, obsolete To be advantageous to; to advantage, to benefit. So [Julius Caesar] Scaliger of himſelfe ingenuouſly confeſſeth, […] I am mightily detained and allured vvith that grace & comelineſſe of faire vvomen, I am vvell pleaſed to bee idle amongſt them. And vvhat young man is not? As is acceptable and conducing to moſt, ſo eſpecially to a melancholy man.
Similar: profit

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verb to contribute or lead to a specific result

Română	dirija, dirigui
Русский	поспе́шествовать pospéšestvovatʹ, спосо́бствовать sposóbstvovatʹ, приводи́ть privodítʹ, привести́ privestí

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@misc{conduce_2026,
  title = {conduce},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/conduce},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}