Conducing

ppl. a. [f. CONDUCE + -ING².]

  1.  That conduces or tends to an end or purpose.

  † a.  Const. to. Obs. (Now expressed by CONDUCIVE).

1586.  A. Day, Eng. Secretarie, I. (1625), 31. For whatsoever is … affined with vertue, or derived from vertue, or conducing to vertue.

1657.  Austen, Fruit Trees, Ep. Ded. Cider being … exceedingly conducing to health.

1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 25. It is not a little conducing to the Justice due to so great … a Soul.

  † b.  Const. inf. with to. Obs.

1697.  Dampier, Voy. (1698), I. iii. 38. What they thought most conducing to obtain their ends.

a. 1716.  Blackall, Wks. (1723), I. 62. Such Means as are conducing to obtain what he desires.

1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 50. The most conducing Cause to attain a just Character.

1736.  Butler, Anal., I. v. 116. Far from necessary or certainly conducing to form a habit.

  c.  without to. (rare.)

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., VIII. 342. To make short this preamble, or conducing complement.

1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 102. A conducing Cause of Decay.

  † 2.  That conduces to the end in view; profitable, serviceable, beneficial; = CONDUCIBLE 2. (See CONDUCE 6.) Obs.

1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., II. ii. VI. iii. (1651), 301. Acceptable and conducing to most,… especially to a melancholy man.

1656.  Culpepper, Eng. Physic., 57. The seed is conducing to al the cold griefs of the Head and Stomach.

1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., p. xx. Passages which may be conducing to myself, in relation to the Subject.

  Hence † Conducingly adv., in a manner conducing to an end.

1656.  S. H., Gold. Law, 45. Any who … hath power, and will conducingly and savingly improve it.

1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 103. Badness of the Materials, and the Employment of illiterate Workmen, all conducingly unite to the general Cause of the Decay of the whole Fabrick.