conduitn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒnd(w)ɪt/,

/ˈkɒndjʊɪt/,

/ˈkʌndɪt/, U.S.

/ˈkɑnˌduət/,

/ˈkɑndwət/

Forms: Middle English condut, cundid, cundit, kundute, kundit(e, (plural condwys, condise), Middle English condyt, condethe, Middle English–1500s condit, condite, condyte, cundite, cundyt(e, Middle English coundite, counduyte, cundyth(e, Middle English–1500s conduyt(e, condet(te, Middle English–1600s conduict, 1500s condute, condyd, cunditt, cunduite, coundight, coundyte, 1500s–1600s conduite, 1700s cunduit, 1500s– conduit.

Etymology: A particular application of the word conduct n.¹ (Old French conduit, medieval Latin conductus in same sense), formerly having all the three type-forms conduit, condit (cundit), conduct; but, while in the other senses the Latin form conduct has prevailed, in this the French form conduit is retained, and the pronunciation descends from the Middle English form condit or cundit.

a. An artificial channel or pipe for the conveyance of water or other liquids; an aqueduct, a canal. (In Scottish in the form cundie commonly applied to a covered drain, not a tile drain.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube

conduit1340

conveyance1577

forcer1598

lead1598

suspiracle1598

trunk1610

by-conduit1631

ducture1670

boxing1683

duct1713

launder1736

α.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 91 Þise uif wytes byeþ ase uif condwys.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxiv. 41 As water kundute [a1425 L.V. cundit].

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Tisbe. 852 As water, whanne the conduyte broken ys.

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome ii. f. 21^v The Conduites runne, within continually.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E7 Conduits of lead, wherein the water shal be conueighed.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 373 Conduits, Pipes, and Canals that were made to distribute the Waters.

1812 Act 52 Geo. III c. 141 §43 in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 125 A certain Conduit called Hobsen's Conduit.

1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §116 The pipes or other conduits..used for the conveyance of gas.

1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 274 Roads having side-drains and cross conduits.

1883 F. de Chaumont Parkes's Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 6) i. i. 25 Open conduits are liable to be contaminated by surface washings.

β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. ii. 24 Thei camen to the hil of the water kundit.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xviii. 32 He beeldide vp an auter..and he made a water cundid.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 221 A greet condyt [L. aquæductum].c1400 Mandeville Voiage & Travaile (1839) v. 47 Þere is no water to drynke, but ȝif it come be condyt from Nyle [Roxb. vii. 24 in cundites fra the riuer].c1400 Rom. Rose 1414 Stremis smale, that by devise Myrthe had done come through condise.c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 733/40 Hic aqueductus, a cundyth undyr the erthe.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 181 Floode Danubius flowethe..in condettes vnder the erthe.1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 35 (heading) An acte concerning the condites at Gloucester.1587 in T. P. Wadley Notes Wills Orphan Bk. Bristol (1886) 249 To the yerely Repayringe of the Cundyte of the said parishe.γ. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 2 A conduict begun at Christ Churche.1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 85 I see the Conducts are made of earthen pipes, which I like farre better then them of Leade.1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §111. 49 A Pipe in the land to convey the water to my Manour in a Conduct.

b. A tube or trough for receiving and protecting electric wires; a length or stretch of this. Also attributive, esp. in connection with the conduit system n. (see quot. 1940²).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > protective tube or trough

diffuser1847

wireway1875

conduit1882

duct1892

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > conductor used in transport > [noun] > collection point > system of

conduit system1894

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > protective tube or trough > system contained in

conduit system1894

1882 U.S. Pat. 266,916 My invention consists, first, in making an electric conduit, comprising an external casing, internal conductor pipes, and supporting diaphragms, of conducting material, so that any electric currents induced in the said pipes will be conducted..directly to the ground.

1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Jan. 127/1 Conduits for holding electric wires laid along the streets.

1894 Daily News 2 June 5/4 At Buda-Pesth, where the conduit electrical system is in such successful operation.

1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 385/1 A trial of the conduit on a commercial basis at Washington.

1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 385/1 Various conduit methods.

1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 385/2 The open slot conduit with a continuous, bare trolley wire.

1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 386/2 The contact or working conductors could readily be placed in a slotted conduit, or trough.

1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 386/2 The road at Blackpool, England,—an open conduit road.

1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 387/1 The Love conduit system.

1896 Daily News 17 Dec. 5/2 The electric power is conveyed from the conduit rail to the car by means of a small peculiarly-shaped conductor.

1899 Daily News 9 Jan. 3/6 New York will soon have 150 miles of conduit.

1903 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 3/5 A conduit line from Vauxhall Bridge to the Clapham-road.

1908 Installation News 2 47/2 Three parallel lengths of ¾ in. Simplex conduit hung a few inches below the ceiling and seven feet apart.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 189/1 Conduit box, a box adapted for connexion to the metal conduit used in electric wiring schemes.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 189/1 Conduit system, (1) a system of wiring..in which the conductors are contained in a steel conduit; (2) a system of current collection used on some electric tramway systems.

1941 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms (ed. 4) 69/1 Conduit Fittings, accessories such as conduit boxes, bends, tees, couplers, etc., for joining lengths of conduit tube for wiring.

1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XI. 131/2 With one method of wiring, separate stranded copper wires with VIR insulation are used, the wires being placed inside black enamelled steel pipes, called ‘conduits’. The conduits are screwed together and joined to cast iron boxes containing the switches and connexions between the wires; the whole conduit system is then joined to earth.

†2.

a. A structure from which water is distributed or made to issue; a fountain. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] > artificial

wellc1300

conduit?a1400

fountain1509

conduit-head1517

waterworka1586

water feature1841

α.

c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xiv. 30 a Like a conduit gushed out the bloude.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. clxi. 144 Oute of the conduyt of chepe ran whyte wyn and rede.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 426 They nowe buylded in the same place a fayre Conduyt, which at this day is called the Conduyt in Cornehyll.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Aa8^v In the middle of the court there is an exceeding pleasant Conduit that spowteth out water in three degrees one aboue another.

1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xxvi. 154 On the conduit without Ludgate, where the arms and angels had been refreshed.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xxviii The conduits round the garden sing.

figurative.a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) i. i See you not these purple conduits run, Know you these wounds?β. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 201 Clarett and Creette, clergyally rennene, With condethes fulle curious alle of clene siluyre.c1400 Mandeville xx. (1839) 217 Þei that ben of houshold, drynken at the condyt.a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xliii. sig. Hv On the foure corners of this bedde there were foure condytes..out of the whiche there yssued so swet an odour & so delectable.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 27 At the condyd in Graschestret, the condet in Cornelle..at the lyttyll condyd..ronnynge wyne, rede claret and wythe.γ. 1533 Anne Boleyn's Coronation in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 393 At the conducte in Cornehill was exhibited a Pageaunte of the three Graces.a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 33 There is a Conduct in the Market Place.

†b. ? A laver or large basin. Obsolete.

1501 Will of John Ward (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/12) f. 81 My grete lavatory of laton called a Condyte.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 6 Great lauers condites, and other infinite fragments of notable woorkmanship.

3. transferred. Any natural channel, canal, or passage.

†a. In the animal body. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal

conduit1340

pipec1385

channela1387

porea1398

canal?a1425

cannel?1553

strait1558

canaliculus1661

tube1661

duct1667

tubule1677

ductus1699

funnel1712

cannule1719

infundibulum1799

meatus1800

tubulet1826

tubulus1826

canalicule1839

canalization1840

ductule1883

α.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 202 Zuo þet o stream of tyeares yerne be þe condut of þe eȝen.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxviii. 120 Wyn taken ouer mesure..stoppeth the conduytes of the nose.

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 38 For thys drincke mollifieth it [the bladder] openeth the condute.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxxx. 544 It doth also stoppe the pores and conduites of the skinne.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse viii. sig. H3 The conduits of the spirits are the arteries and veins.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 4 The conduit that goes to the third stomach.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 88 The secretion of the fat..is not performed in glands or in particular conduits.

β. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. ix. 17 The stif swerd..Persyt hys cost and breistis cundyt inhy.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep (1627) 249 In the condite of the teat.γ. c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciij [The Sea-] hurcheon, havand bot ane conduct..to purge thair wambe and ressaue thair meit.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxvii. 56 The juyce..openeth the conductes of the nose.1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 56 The sacred conduicts of her Wombe.

b. In geological or geographical formations (19th cent.); = canal n. 2a, channel n.¹ 8.

ΚΠ

α.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. ix. 126 A subterranean conduit or eruptive channel by which the volcanic matter was protruded to the surface.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 693.

4. figurative. The channel or medium by which anything (e.g. knowledge, influence, wealth, etc.) is conveyed; = canal n. 7, channel n.¹ 12a.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > conveying by a channel or medium > channel or medium of conveyance

carriera1398

conduct1423

conveyance1548

conduita1569

conduit-pipe1581

convoy1599

conveyor1621

conveyancer1624

convoyance1682

conductor1796

efferent1876

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > means of supply

channel1537

conduit1818

pipeline1916

α.

a1569 M. Coverdale Fruitful Lessons (1593) sig. T4^v Here are opened the conduites and well pipes of life, the way of our health.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 57 Conduits of irremediable death to impenitent Receivers.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 252 Language being the great Conduit, whereby Men convey..Knowledge, from one to another.

1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 290 Sacraments are..his appointed Means or Conduits, in and by which He confers his Graces.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iii. 322 These republics..became the conduits through which the produce of the East flowed in.

1878 J. Morley J. de Maistre Crit. Misc. 99 Reaching people through those usual conduits of press and pulpits.

γ. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini 53 The spirit..running still in the first channels by ordinary conducts.1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 18 The addresses of the people to their Sovereign..being convey'd through him as a conduct.

5. Architecture.

†a. gen. A passage. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]

alley1363

tresance1428

passagea1525

gallery1541

trance1545

through-passage1575

lobby1596

passageway?1606

conduit1624

gangway1702

vista1708

glidec1710

aisle1734

gallery1756

corridor1814

traverse1822

heck1825

rotunda1847

scutchell1847

zaguan1851

aisleway1868

pend1893

dogtrot1901

fairway1903

dog run1904

dog walk1938

walkout1947

coulisse1949

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 33 Doors, Windows, Stair-cases, Chimnies, or other Conducts.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 7.

b. spec. (see quot. 1842).

ΚΠ

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 955 Conduit (Fr.). A long narrow walled passage underground, for secret communication between different apartments.

†6. The leading (of water) by a channel. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > [noun]

conduit1555

hydragogy1570

leading1570

derivation1607

conductiona1613

conduct1847

pipage1883

leading1890

pipelining1942

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 10 Thei deriued into cities..the pure freshe waters..by conduicte of pipes and troughes.

7. Music. A short connecting passage, a codetta.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > connecting passage

change1598

transition1857

conduit1872

copula1880

bridge passage1895

bridge1926

1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. §404 By a short passage —— Conduit..it [the Motivo] is again returned to.

1880 Ouseley in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 568/1. (See copula.)

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Also conduit-pipe n.

conduit-cock n.

1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. B^v Weele take the Tankardes from the Conduit cockes, To fill with Ipocras.

conduit-like adj.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xi. sig. V8^v Those Saphir-coloured brookes, Which conduit-like with curious crookes, Sweete Ilands make.

conduit-water n.

C2.

conduit-head n. a reservoir; = 2; also figurative.

ΘΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]

welleOE

mothereOE

ordeOE

wellspringeOE

fathereOE

headeOE

oreOE

wellspringOE

rootc1175

morea1200

beginningc1200

head wella1325

sourcec1374

principlea1382

risinga1382

springinga1382

fountain14..

springerc1410

nativity?a1425

racinea1425

spring1435

headspring?a1439

seminaryc1440

originationc1443

spring wellc1450

sourdre1477

primordialc1487

naissance1490

wellhead?1492

offspringa1500

conduit-head1517

damc1540

springhead1547

principium1550

mint1555

principal1555

centre1557

head fountain1563

parentage1581

rise1589

spawna1591

fount1594

parent1597

taproot1601

origin1604

fountainhead1606

radix1607

springa1616

abundary1622

rist1622

primitive1628

primary1632

land-spring1642

extraction1655

upstart1669

progenerator1692

fontala1711

well-eye1826

first birth1838

ancestry1880

Quelle1893

the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] > artificial

wellc1300

conduit?a1400

fountain1509

conduit-head1517

waterworka1586

water feature1841

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 20 A fountauyne..A noble sprynge a ryall conduyte hede.

1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. G3 Conduit-heads of treason.

† conduit-water n. Obsolete spring water.

ΘΠ

the world > the earth > water > body of water > spring water > [noun]

conduit-water1545

1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. sig. M.vi Holyoke soden in conduyt water.

1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 28 (heading) in Jewell House A glasse of conduit water.

conduit-wise adv.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. D6 A little chappell made conduitwise.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	conduit
释义	conduitn. Brit. /ˈkɒnd(w)ɪt/, /ˈkɒndjʊɪt/, /ˈkʌndɪt/, U.S. /ˈkɑnˌduət/, /ˈkɑndwət/ Forms: Middle English condut, cundid, cundit, kundute, kundit(e, (plural condwys, condise), Middle English condyt, condethe, Middle English–1500s condit, condite, condyte, cundite, cundyt(e, Middle English coundite, counduyte, cundyth(e, Middle English–1500s conduyt(e, condet(te, Middle English–1600s conduict, 1500s condute, condyd, cunditt, cunduite, coundight, coundyte, 1500s–1600s conduite, 1700s cunduit, 1500s– conduit. Etymology: A particular application of the word conduct n.¹ (Old French conduit, medieval Latin conductus in same sense), formerly having all the three type-forms conduit, condit (cundit), conduct; but, while in the other senses the Latin form conduct has prevailed, in this the French form conduit is retained, and the pronunciation descends from the Middle English form condit or cundit. 1. a. An artificial channel or pipe for the conveyance of water or other liquids; an aqueduct, a canal. (In Scottish in the form cundie commonly applied to a covered drain, not a tile drain.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube conduit1340 conveyance1577 forcer1598 lead1598 suspiracle1598 trunk1610 by-conduit1631 ducture1670 boxing1683 duct1713 launder1736 α. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 91 Þise uif wytes byeþ ase uif condwys. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxiv. 41 As water kundute [a1425 L.V. cundit]. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Tisbe. 852 As water, whanne the conduyte broken ys. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome ii. f. 21^v The Conduites runne, within continually. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E7 Conduits of lead, wherein the water shal be conueighed. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 373 Conduits, Pipes, and Canals that were made to distribute the Waters. 1812 Act 52 Geo. III c. 141 §43 in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 125 A certain Conduit called Hobsen's Conduit. 1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §116 The pipes or other conduits..used for the conveyance of gas. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 274 Roads having side-drains and cross conduits. 1883 F. de Chaumont Parkes's Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 6) i. i. 25 Open conduits are liable to be contaminated by surface washings. β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. ii. 24 Thei camen to the hil of the water kundit.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xviii. 32 He beeldide vp an auter..and he made a water cundid.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 221 A greet condyt [L. aquæductum].c1400 Mandeville Voiage & Travaile (1839) v. 47 Þere is no water to drynke, but ȝif it come be condyt from Nyle [Roxb. vii. 24 in cundites fra the riuer].c1400 Rom. Rose 1414 Stremis smale, that by devise Myrthe had done come through condise.c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 733/40 Hic aqueductus, a cundyth undyr the erthe.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 181 Floode Danubius flowethe..in condettes vnder the erthe.1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 35 (heading) An acte concerning the condites at Gloucester.1587 in T. P. Wadley Notes Wills Orphan Bk. Bristol (1886) 249 To the yerely Repayringe of the Cundyte of the said parishe.γ. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 2 A conduict begun at Christ Churche.1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 85 I see the Conducts are made of earthen pipes, which I like farre better then them of Leade.1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §111. 49 A Pipe in the land to convey the water to my Manour in a Conduct. b. A tube or trough for receiving and protecting electric wires; a length or stretch of this. Also attributive, esp. in connection with the conduit system n. (see quot. 1940²). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > protective tube or trough diffuser1847 wireway1875 conduit1882 duct1892 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > conductor used in transport > [noun] > collection point > system of conduit system1894 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > protective tube or trough > system contained in conduit system1894 1882 U.S. Pat. 266,916 My invention consists, first, in making an electric conduit, comprising an external casing, internal conductor pipes, and supporting diaphragms, of conducting material, so that any electric currents induced in the said pipes will be conducted..directly to the ground. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Jan. 127/1 Conduits for holding electric wires laid along the streets. 1894 Daily News 2 June 5/4 At Buda-Pesth, where the conduit electrical system is in such successful operation. 1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 385/1 A trial of the conduit on a commercial basis at Washington. 1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 385/1 Various conduit methods. 1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 385/2 The open slot conduit with a continuous, bare trolley wire. 1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 386/2 The contact or working conductors could readily be placed in a slotted conduit, or trough. 1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 386/2 The road at Blackpool, England,—an open conduit road. 1894 Cassier's Mag. Sept. 387/1 The Love conduit system. 1896 Daily News 17 Dec. 5/2 The electric power is conveyed from the conduit rail to the car by means of a small peculiarly-shaped conductor. 1899 Daily News 9 Jan. 3/6 New York will soon have 150 miles of conduit. 1903 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 3/5 A conduit line from Vauxhall Bridge to the Clapham-road. 1908 Installation News 2 47/2 Three parallel lengths of ¾ in. Simplex conduit hung a few inches below the ceiling and seven feet apart. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 189/1 Conduit box, a box adapted for connexion to the metal conduit used in electric wiring schemes. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 189/1 Conduit system, (1) a system of wiring..in which the conductors are contained in a steel conduit; (2) a system of current collection used on some electric tramway systems. 1941 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms (ed. 4) 69/1 Conduit Fittings, accessories such as conduit boxes, bends, tees, couplers, etc., for joining lengths of conduit tube for wiring. 1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XI. 131/2 With one method of wiring, separate stranded copper wires with VIR insulation are used, the wires being placed inside black enamelled steel pipes, called ‘conduits’. The conduits are screwed together and joined to cast iron boxes containing the switches and connexions between the wires; the whole conduit system is then joined to earth. †2. a. A structure from which water is distributed or made to issue; a fountain. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] > artificial wellc1300 conduit?a1400 fountain1509 conduit-head1517 waterworka1586 water feature1841 α. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xiv. 30 a Like a conduit gushed out the bloude. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. clxi. 144 Oute of the conduyt of chepe ran whyte wyn and rede. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 426 They nowe buylded in the same place a fayre Conduyt, which at this day is called the Conduyt in Cornehyll. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Aa8^v In the middle of the court there is an exceeding pleasant Conduit that spowteth out water in three degrees one aboue another. 1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xxvi. 154 On the conduit without Ludgate, where the arms and angels had been refreshed. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xxviii The conduits round the garden sing. figurative.a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) i. i See you not these purple conduits run, Know you these wounds?β. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 201 Clarett and Creette, clergyally rennene, With condethes fulle curious alle of clene siluyre.c1400 Mandeville xx. (1839) 217 Þei that ben of houshold, drynken at the condyt.a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xliii. sig. Hv On the foure corners of this bedde there were foure condytes..out of the whiche there yssued so swet an odour & so delectable.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 27 At the condyd in Graschestret, the condet in Cornelle..at the lyttyll condyd..ronnynge wyne, rede claret and wythe.γ. 1533 Anne Boleyn's Coronation in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 393 At the conducte in Cornehill was exhibited a Pageaunte of the three Graces.a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 33 There is a Conduct in the Market Place. †b. ? A laver or large basin. Obsolete. Π 1501 Will of John Ward (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/12) f. 81 My grete lavatory of laton called a Condyte. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 6 Great lauers condites, and other infinite fragments of notable woorkmanship. 3. transferred. Any natural channel, canal, or passage. †a. In the animal body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal conduit1340 pipec1385 channela1387 porea1398 canal?a1425 cannel?1553 strait1558 canaliculus1661 tube1661 duct1667 tubule1677 ductus1699 funnel1712 cannule1719 infundibulum1799 meatus1800 tubulet1826 tubulus1826 canalicule1839 canalization1840 ductule1883 α. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 202 Zuo þet o stream of tyeares yerne be þe condut of þe eȝen. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxviii. 120 Wyn taken ouer mesure..stoppeth the conduytes of the nose. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 38 For thys drincke mollifieth it [the bladder] openeth the condute. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxxx. 544 It doth also stoppe the pores and conduites of the skinne. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse viii. sig. H3 The conduits of the spirits are the arteries and veins. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 4 The conduit that goes to the third stomach. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 88 The secretion of the fat..is not performed in glands or in particular conduits. β. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. ix. 17 The stif swerd..Persyt hys cost and breistis cundyt inhy.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep (1627) 249 In the condite of the teat.γ. c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciij [The Sea-] hurcheon, havand bot ane conduct..to purge thair wambe and ressaue thair meit.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxvii. 56 The juyce..openeth the conductes of the nose.1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 56 The sacred conduicts of her Wombe. b. In geological or geographical formations (19th cent.); = canal n. 2a, channel n.¹ 8. ΚΠ α. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. ix. 126 A subterranean conduit or eruptive channel by which the volcanic matter was protruded to the surface. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 693. 4. figurative. The channel or medium by which anything (e.g. knowledge, influence, wealth, etc.) is conveyed; = canal n. 7, channel n.¹ 12a. ΘΠ the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > conveying by a channel or medium > channel or medium of conveyance carriera1398 conduct1423 conveyance1548 conduita1569 conduit-pipe1581 convoy1599 conveyor1621 conveyancer1624 convoyance1682 conductor1796 efferent1876 the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > means of supply channel1537 conduit1818 pipeline1916 α. a1569 M. Coverdale Fruitful Lessons (1593) sig. T4^v Here are opened the conduites and well pipes of life, the way of our health. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 57 Conduits of irremediable death to impenitent Receivers. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 252 Language being the great Conduit, whereby Men convey..Knowledge, from one to another. 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 290 Sacraments are..his appointed Means or Conduits, in and by which He confers his Graces. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iii. 322 These republics..became the conduits through which the produce of the East flowed in. 1878 J. Morley J. de Maistre Crit. Misc. 99 Reaching people through those usual conduits of press and pulpits. γ. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini 53 The spirit..running still in the first channels by ordinary conducts.1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 18 The addresses of the people to their Sovereign..being convey'd through him as a conduct. 5. Architecture. †a. gen. A passage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] alley1363 tresance1428 passagea1525 gallery1541 trance1545 through-passage1575 lobby1596 passageway?1606 conduit1624 gangway1702 vista1708 glidec1710 aisle1734 gallery1756 corridor1814 traverse1822 heck1825 rotunda1847 scutchell1847 zaguan1851 aisleway1868 pend1893 dogtrot1901 fairway1903 dog run1904 dog walk1938 walkout1947 coulisse1949 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 33 Doors, Windows, Stair-cases, Chimnies, or other Conducts. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 7. b. spec. (see quot. 1842). ΚΠ 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 955 Conduit (Fr.). A long narrow walled passage underground, for secret communication between different apartments. †6. The leading (of water) by a channel. Obsolete. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > [noun] conduit1555 hydragogy1570 leading1570 derivation1607 conductiona1613 conduct1847 pipage1883 leading1890 pipelining1942 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 10 Thei deriued into cities..the pure freshe waters..by conduicte of pipes and troughes. 7. Music. A short connecting passage, a codetta. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > connecting passage change1598 transition1857 conduit1872 copula1880 bridge passage1895 bridge1926 1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. §404 By a short passage —— Conduit..it [the Motivo] is again returned to. 1880 Ouseley in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 568/1. (See copula.) Compounds C1. General attributive. Also conduit-pipe n. conduit-cock n. Π 1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. B^v Weele take the Tankardes from the Conduit cockes, To fill with Ipocras. conduit-like adj. Π a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xi. sig. V8^v Those Saphir-coloured brookes, Which conduit-like with curious crookes, Sweete Ilands make. conduit-water n. C2. conduit-head n. a reservoir; = 2; also figurative. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 Quelle1893 the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] > artificial wellc1300 conduit?a1400 fountain1509 conduit-head1517 waterworka1586 water feature1841 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 20 A fountauyne..A noble sprynge a ryall conduyte hede. 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. G3 Conduit-heads of treason. † conduit-water n. Obsolete spring water. ΘΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > spring water > [noun] conduit-water1545 1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. sig. M.vi Holyoke soden in conduyt water. 1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 28 (heading) in Jewell House A glasse of conduit water. conduit-wise adv. Π 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. D6 A little chappell made conduitwise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † conduitv. Etymology: < conduit n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. a. To pour forth like a conduit or fountain. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (transitive)] > forth, like a fountain conduit1591 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. A3 v My eyes should conduit foorth a sea of teares. b. To transmit or convey as through a conduit. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > convey by a channel or medium conductc1420 derive1483 channel1560 carry1565 convey1601 conduit1628 transmit1664 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. ix. sig. I4 His corruption,..is still Conduited to his vndone Posterity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1340v.1591
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