Know Your Next Word : conduce
10. conduce :
verb :
to lead to or contribute to a particular result
Usage :
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.(Abraham Lincoln : Lyceum Address : Jan 27 - 1838.)
qualities that conduce to success
The quiet conduces to thinking about the darkening future.
He was sent to conduce hither the princess.
Related Forms :
conducer : noun
conducible : adjective
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