conducibility

[Eng. conducibl (e); -ity.] The quality of being conducible; capability of being conduced or turned. IMG:content-0523.png:[blocks in formation] Every Man Out of His Humor. 4. A convoy, guard, or escort. "His majesty, Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed This conduct to convey me to the Tower." Shakesp.: Richard III., i. 1. safe-conduct (q. v.). ". all merchants of what nation soever, shall have safe conduct to pa and repa with their merchandise into England."-Hackluyt: Voyages , vol. i., p. 129. *6. That which leads, carries, or conveys anything; a conduit, a channel. "Likewise by the sayd cisterne there is drinke conueyed thorow certaine pipes and conducts, Voyages, vol. ii., pt. 1., p. 61. II. Figuratively : *1. Management, direction. ."- Hackluut : "Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, ." - Bacon . *2. Sharpne , cleverne , or skill in the management of matters. is unable to comprehend how an extreme want of conduct and discretion can consist with the abilities I have allowed him."-Letters of Junius, No. 54. 3. Behavior, mode of action, deportment. "All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrews bury."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. *4. Regularity or exactne of life; exact behavior. "Though all regard for reputation is not quite laid aside, it is so low, that very few think virtue and conduct "Duties, as deriving their obligation from their con- dusibility to the promoting of our chief end." of absolute nece ity for preserving it."- Swift . Wilsins: Of Nat . Relig ., bk. i., ch. xiv.