† conˈducible, a. (n.) Obs.
Also 7 conduceable.
[ad. L. condūcibil-is, f. condūcĕre: see -ble.]
A. adj.
1. Capable of conducing; tending or fitted to promote (a specified end or purpose); = conducive. Const. to (rarely for).
| 1546 Bale Eng. Votaries ii. (1550) 81 A thyng very conducyble to the vnderstandyng of the scriptures. 1607 T. Walkington Opt. Glass i. (1664) 12 More conducible unto their healths. 1667 Naphtali (1761) 143 A most conducible expedient for the securing the ends thereof. 1720 Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xv. 401 Nothing that could be any wayes conducible to the Accomplishment of this Mighty Work. 1756 T. Amory Buncle (1770) I. 23 Conducible means to social happiness. |
b. Const. inf. with to.
| 1579 Fenton Guicciard. xv. (1599) 707 So conducible his example to carie the mindes of his souldiers to contemne all perill. 1684 Manton Exp. Lord's Pr. Wks. 1870 I. 214 Outward afflictions..are not so conducible to humble a gracious heart as temptations. |
2. Conducive to the desired end; advantageous, expedient, serviceable, beneficial.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad i. 113 She shall go, if more conducible That course be than her holding here. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden clviii, Caraway seeds..are very conducible to all the cold griefs of the Head. 1683 J. Corbet Free Actions i. §9. 7 Sin..cannot be willed of God as a thing convenient or conducible. |
¶ 3. Factitious archaism: = ‘That may be led’.
| 1846 Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. II. 287 It is a tractable and conducible youth. Ibid. II. 299. |
B. n. A conducible or conducive thing.
| 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. ix. 211 These Motions of Generations and Corruptions, and of the conducibles thereunto. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 17 Aristotle and Plato cal such things as conduce to the Wel-being of the Bodie and Life, ‘Goods’: the Stoic will not have them called so, but προηγµενα, ‘conducibles’. |