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Lead up   /lɛd əp/   Listen
Lead up

verb
1.
Set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for.  Synonym: initiate.






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"Lead up" Quotes from Famous Books



... the minor events which lead up to it, is scarcely less remarkable as exhibiting in the original author, whoever he was, a sense of art, a sense of finality, the absence of which is the great blot on Romance at large, owing to ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury

... of which faculties, Are strewn confusedly everywhere about The inferior natures, and all lead up higher, All shape out divinely the superior race, The heir of hopes too fair to turn out false, And man ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones

... Do you know about the gates kept by angels? They lead up to heaven, and the road is just like that in there, only there are people walking up them in white dresses. We shall have to get frough them ...
— 'Me and Nobbles' • Amy Le Feuvre

... look briefly at the other instances of protective coloration in nature generally which lead up to these final bizarre exemplifications of ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... is either inductive or deductive. It groups particulars so as to lead up to a general conception which embraces them all, but which could not be fully understood until they had been estimated; or else it starts from some general conception, already familar to the mind, and as it moves along, casts its light upon numerous particulars, which are thus shown ...
— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes


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