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Conduct   /kəndˈəkt/  /kˈɑndəkt/   Listen
noun
Conduct  n.  
1.
The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. "Christianity has humanized the conduct of war." "The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs."
2.
Skillful guidance or management; generalship. "Conduct of armies is a prince's art." "Attacked the Spaniards... with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed."
3.
Convoy; escort; guard; guide. (Archaic) "I will be your conduct." "In my conduct shall your ladies come."
4.
That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. (Obs.) "Although thou hast been conduct of my shame."
5.
The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior. "All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury." "What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone?"
6.
Plot; action; construction; manner of development. "The book of Job, in conduct and diction."
Conduct money (Naut.), a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.
Synonyms: Behavior; carriage; deportment; demeanor; bearing; management; guidance. See Behavior.


verb
Conduct  v. t.  (past & past part. conducted; pres. part. conducting)  
1.
To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend. "I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe."
2.
To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom. "Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege."
3.
To behave; with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
4.
(Physics) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
5.
(Mus.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.


Conduct  v. i.  
1.
To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
2.
To conduct one's self; to behave. (U. S.)





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... instructed in his duty as guest and under a discipline that is merciless so far as conduct toward the population goes; so the two get on better than French and English military authorities feared that they might. Time has taught them to understand each other and to see that difference in ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... Atossa, the evident desire she betrayed to take part in the brilliant life of the capital,—indeed, her whole manner troubled him. It seemed so unaccountable that she should be angry with him for his conduct at the burial of the prophet, that he almost thought she had wished to take advantage of a trifle for the sake of annoying him. He felt that doubt which never comes so suddenly and wounds so keenly as when a man feels the most certain of his ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford
... character, at least the moral value, of human action. His thought in this direction, wherein he anticipated something of modern speculation, is the more remarkable because his scholastic successors accomplished least in the field of morals, hardly venturing to bring the principles and rules of conduct under pure philosophical discussion, even after the great ethical inquiries of AAstotle became fully known to ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by him that Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go to Portsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson's conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something, to which ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... boy," resumed Dagobert with emotion, "there is something in thy conduct that savors of constraint, of oppression. I know something of men. He you call superior, whom I saw for some moments after the shipwreck at Cardoville Castle, has a bad look; and I am sorry to see you enrolled under such ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue


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