conduced

Verb

conduce (third-person singular simple present conduces, present participle conducing, simple past and past participle conduced)

1. (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...1518 (date written), John Strype, quoting Thomas Wolsey, “Wolsey’s Counsil and Influence in the King’s Affairs. …”, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of...
2. (formal, obsolete, transitive) To contribute (something).
3. (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: […]1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “A Discourse of the Life and Habit of the Persians at this Present. [The Eight Commandement. Doe so to Others as Thou wouldest haue Them Doe to Thee.]”, in A Relation of...
4. (formal, obsolete, rare, transitive) To advantage or benefit (someone or something).

   Synonyms:

   profit

5. (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: […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...
6. (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: […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...

   Synonyms:

   promote, subserve

   Antonyms:

   disconduce

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