conducing

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Verb

conducing

  1. present participle and gerund of conduce

Adjective

conducing (comparative more conducing, superlative most conducing)

  1. That conduces to a given purpose or end result.
  2. (obsolete) That conduces to a desired purpose; beneficial, helpful.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 6, subsection 3:
      As it is acceptable and conducing to most, so especially to a melancholy man […]

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