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conˈducing, ppl. a.
[f. conduce + -ing2.]
1. That conduces or tends to an end or purpose.
†a. Const. to. Obs. (now expressed by conducive) exc. in conduct conducing (to adultery).
1586A. Day Eng. Secretarie i. (1625) 31 For whatsoever is..affined with vertue, or derived from vertue, or conducing to vertue. 1657Austen Fruit Trees Ep. Ded., Cider being..exceedingly conducing to health. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 25 It is not a little conducing to the Justice due to so great..a Soul. 1868Law Jrnl. Rep. XXXVII. v. 4/2 The fact that the husband had been in the habit of going with his wife and the co-respondent to places of amusement..and then leaving her in the care of the co-respondent, was conduct conducing to the adultery. 1897Browne & Powles Law & Pract. Court for Divorce & Matrimonial Causes (ed. 6) ii. 114 The following cases on the subject of conduct conducing to adultery have been decided. 1907Westm. Gaz. 4 June 5/1 The suggestion was that they (the jury) might find adultery which she said she never committed, and that in no sense had there been conduct conducing or connivance on the part of Mr. B. 1959Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law I. 447/1 Conduct conducing. In suits for divorce or judicial separation on the ground of adultery or unsoundness of mind or desertion, the court is not bound to pronounce a decree if it finds that the petitioner's wilful neglect or misconduct has conduced to the offence alleged; the matter is purely discretionary (Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950, s. 4).
†b. Const. inf. with to. Obs.
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1698) I. iii. 38 What they thought most conducing to obtain their ends. a1716Bp. O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. 62 Such Means as are conducing to obtain what he desires. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 50 The most conducing Cause to attain a just Character. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. 116 Far from necessary or certainly conducing to form a habit.
c. without to. (rare.)
1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 342 To make short this preamble, or conducing complement. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 102 A conducing Cause of Decay.
†2. That conduces to the end in view; profitable, serviceable, beneficial; = conducible 2. (See conduce 6.) Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iii. (1651) 301 Acceptable and conducing to most,..especially to a melancholy man. 1656Culpepper Eng. Physic. 57 The seed is conducing to al the cold griefs of the Head and Stomach. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. p. xx, Passages which may be conducing to myself, in relation to the Subject.
Hence † conˈducingly adv., in a manner conducing to an end.
1656S. H. Gold. Law 45 Any who..hath power, and will conducingly and savingly improve it. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 103 Badness of the Materials, and the Employment of illiterate Workmen, all conducingly unite to the general Cause of the Decay of the whole Fabrick. |