Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CONDUCE

CONDUCE, verb intransitive [Latin, to lead.] To lead or tend; to contribute; followed by to.They may conduce to farther discoveries for completing the theory of light.To conduce...

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CONDUCEMENT

CONDUCEMENT, noun A leading or tending to; tendency.

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CONDUCENT

CONDUCENT, adjective Tending or contributing to.

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CONDUCIBLE

CONDUCIBLE, adjective [Latin] Leading or tending to; having the power of conducing; having a tendency to promote or forward.Our Savior hath enjoined us a reasonable service; all...

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CONDUCIBLENESS

CONDUCIBLENESS, noun The quality of leading or contributing to any end.

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CONDUCIVE

CONDUCIVE, adjective That may conduce or contribute; having a tendency to promote.An action, however conducive to the good of our country, will be represented as prejudicial to it.

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CONDUCIVENESS

CONDUCIVENESS, noun The quality of conducing or tending to promote.

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CONDUCT

CONDUCT, noun [Latin, to lead. See Duke.]1. Literally, the act of leading; guidance; command. So Waller has used it.CONDUCT of armies is a princes art.2. The act of convoying, o...

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CONDUCTED

CONDUCTED, participle passive Led; guided; directed; introduced; commanded; managed.

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CONDUCTING

CONDUCTING, participle present tense Leading; escorting; introducing; commanding; behaving; managing.

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CONDUCTION

CONDUCTION, noun1. The act of training up. [Not in use.]2. Transmission through or by means of a conductor.

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CONDUCTITIOUS

CONDUCTITIOUS, adjective [Latin, to hire.] Hired; employed for wages.

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CONDUCTOR

CONDUCTOR, noun1. A leader; a guide; one who goes before or accompanies, and shows the way.2. A chief; a commander; one who leads an army or a people.3. A director; a manager.4....

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CONDUCTRESS

CONDUCTRESS, noun A female who leads or directs; a directress.

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CONDUIT

CONDUIT, noun [Latin, to conduct.]1. A canal or pipe for the conveyance of water; an aqueduct. Conduits are made of lead, stone, cast iron, wood, etc., above or below the surfac...

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CONDUPLICATE

CONDUPLICATE, adjective [Latin, to double or fold. See Double.] Doubled or folded over or together; as the leaves of a bud.CONDUPLICATE, verb transitive To double; to fold toget...

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CONDUPLICATED

CONDUPLICATED, adjective Doubled; folded together.

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CONDUPLICATION

CONDUPLICATION, noun [Latin] A doubling; a duplicate.

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CONDYL

CONDYL, noun [Latin, Gr.] A protuberance on the end of a bone; a knot, or foint; a knuckle.

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CONDYLOID

CONDYLOID, adjective [Gr., and form.] The condyloid process is the posterior protuberance at the extremities of the under jaw; an oblong rounded head, which is received into the...

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CONE

CONE, noun [It coincides in radical sense with the root of can and begin.]1. A solid body or figure having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex, li...

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CONEPATE

CONEPATE, CONEPATL, noun An animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and its fetid stench.

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CONEPATL

CONEPATE, CONEPATL noun An animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and its fetid stench.

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CONEY

CONEY. [See Cony.]

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CONFABULATE

CONFABULATE, verb intransitive [Latin, to tell. See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.If birds confabulate or no. [Little used.]

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CONFABULATION

CONFABULATION, noun [Latin] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [Not an elegant word, and little used.]

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CONFABULATORY

CONFABULATORY, adjective Belonging to familiar talk. [Little used.]