conduit2t

[ME. * conduit, coundut, duct a, can duct a ) (>MLG. canduc ), a kind of descant or motet or anthem in which the melody was partly improvised by the leading singer, lit. a led or conducted song, being prop. pp. (sc. cantus ) of L. conducere, lead, conduct: see conduce, conduct, v.] A form of vocal composition: same as conductus, 1. At the soper & after, mony athel [noble] songe As coundutes of kryst-ma e, & carole newe, With alle the manerly merthe that mon may of telle. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. Š.), 1. 1655. conduplicant conduplicant (kon-dū'pli-kant), a . [L. con duplican(t-)s, ppr. of conduplicare, double. to [ Condurrow (see