a. (sb.) 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. 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. 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. sb. 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.’
