Obs. Also 3 cundut, 4 coundute. [a. OF. condut, conduit, nom. conduis:—med.L. conductus a sort of motet, sung while the priest was proceeding to the altar: see Godefroy. It is etymologically the same word as F. conduit, CONDUCT.] A kind of song or carol.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 483. And hure and hure to Cristes masse, Wane riche and poore, more and lasse, Singeth condut niȝt and dai.
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1655. Mony aþel songez, As coundutes of kryst-masse, & carolez newe.
[1880. Grove’s Dict. Mus., II. 372/1. The Conductus, a species of Sæcular Song, in which the subject in the Tenor was original, and suggested the other parts, after the manner of the Guida of a Canon.]
