Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-DO'LA-TO-RY, a.

Expressing condolence.

CON-DOLE', v.i. [L. condoleo; con, with, and doleo, to ache, or to grieve.]

To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. It is followed by with before the person for whom we feel grief.

CON-DOLE', v.t.

To lament or bewail with another, or on account of another's misfortune. [Unusual.] Why should our poet petition Isis for her safe delivery and afterward condole her miscarriage? – Dryden. Milton.

CON-DOLE'MENT, n.

Grief; pain of mind at another's loss or misfortune; sorrow; mourning. – Shak.

CON-DO'LENCE, n.

Pain of mind, or grief excited by the distress, or misfortune of another. – Arbuthnot.

CON-DOL'ER, n.

One who condoles.

CON-DOL'ING, n.

Expression of grief for another's loss.

CON-DOL'ING, ppr.

Grieving at another's distress.

CON'DO-MA, n.

An animal of the goat kind, as large as a stag, and of a gray color. – Dict. of Nat. Hist. It is a species of Antelope, the A. strepsiceros.

CON-DO-NA'TION, n. [L. condono.]

The act of pardoning. [Little used.]

CON'DOR, n.

The largest species of, fowl hitherto discovered; a native of South America. Some naturalists class it with the vultur; others, with the eagle. The wings of the largest, when expanded, are said to extend 15 or 18 feet; and the fowl has strength to bear off a calf or a deer. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.

CON-DUCE', v.i. [L. conduco; con and duco, to lead; Sp. conducir; It. condurre.]

To lead or tend; to contribute; followed by to. They may conduce to farther discoveries for completing the theory of light. – Newton. To conduce to, includes the sense of aiding, tending to produce, or furnishing the means; hence it is sometimes equivalent to promote, advance, or further. Virtue conduces to the welfare of society. Religion conduces to temporal happiness. Temperance conduces to health and long life. In the transitive sense, to conduct, it is not authorized.

CON-DUCE'MENT, n.

A leading or tending to; tendency. – Gregory.

CON-DU'CENT, a.

Tending or contributing to. – Laud.

CON-DU'CI-BLE, a. [L. conducibilis.]

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 his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. – Bentley. [This word is less used than conducive.]

CON-DU'CI-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of leading or concluding to any end. – More.

CON-DU'CI-BLY, adv.

In a manner to promote.

CON-DU'CING, ppr.

Tending or contributing.

CON-DU'CIVE, a.

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. – Addison.

CON-DU'CIVE-NESS, n.

The quality of conducing or tending to promote. – Boyle.

CON'DUCT, n. [Sp. conducta; It. condotta; Fr. conduite; from the L. conductus, but with a different sense, from conduco, to lead; con and duco. See Duke.]

1. Literally, the act of leading; guidance; command. So Waller has used it. Conduct of armies is a prince's art
2. The art of convoying, or guarding; guidance or bringing along under protection. – Shak.
3. Guard on the way; convoy; escort. – Shak. [These senses are now unusual, though not improper.]
4. In a general sense, personal behavior; course of actions; deportment; applicable equally to a good or bad course of actions; as laudable conduct; detestable conduct. The word seems originally to have been followed with life, actions, affairs, or other term; as, the conduct of life; the conduct of actions; that is, the leading along of life or actions. Young men in the conduct and manage of actions embrace more than they can hold. – Bacon. What in the conduct of our life appears. – Dryden. But by custom, conduct alone is now used to express the idea of behavior or course of life and manners.
5. Exact behavior; regular life. [Unusual.] – Swift.
6. Management; mode of carrying on. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. – Paley.
7. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College in England. – Mason.

CON-DUCT', v.t. [Sp. conducir; Port. conduzir, to conduct, and to conduce; Fr. conduire; It. condurre; L. conduco. But the English verb is from the noun conduct, or the L. participle.]

1. To lead; to bring along; to guide; to accompany and show the way. And Judah came to Gilgal, to conduct the king over Jordan. 2 Sam. xix.
2. To lead; to direct or point out the way; as, the precepts of Christ will conduct us to happiness.
3. To lead; to usher in; to introduce; to attend in civility. Pray receive them nobly, and conduct them Into our presence. – Shak.
4. To give a direction to; to manage; applied to things; as, the farmer conducts his affairs with prudence.
5. To lead, as a commander; to direct; to govern; to command; as, to conduct an army or a division of troops.
6. With the reciprocal pronoun, to conduct one's self, is to behave. Hence, by a customary omission of the pronoun, to conduct, in an intransitive sense, is to behave; to direct personal actions. [See the noun.]
7. To escort; to accompany and protect on the way.

CON-DUCT'ED, pp.

Led; guided; directed; introduced; commanded; managed.

CON-DUCT'ING, ppr.

Leading; escorting; introducing; commanding; behaving; managing.

CON-DUC'TION, n.

1. The act of training up. [Not in use.] – B. Jonson.
2. Transmission through or by means of a conductor. – Henry's Chim.