Word Meanings - CONDUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct

Additional info about word: CONDUCT

1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct of armies is a prince's art. Waller. Attacked the Spaniards . . . with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed. Robertson. 3. Convoy; escort; guard; guide. I will be your conduct. B. Jonson. In my conduct shall your ladies come. Shak. 4. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. Although thou been conduct of my chame. Shak. 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. Macaulay. What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden. 6. Plot; action; construction; manner of development. The book of Job, in conduct and diction. Macaulay. Conduct money , a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory. Syn. -- Behavior; deportment; demeanor; bearing; management; guidance. See Behavior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONDUCT)

• Bearing
• Behavior
• deportment
• manner
• aspect
• carriage
• mien
• demeanour
• port
• conduct
• inclination
• position
• appearance
• direction
• course
• Conduct
• bearing
• demeanor
• proceeding
• comportment
• action
• Carriage
• Transportation
• conveyance
• walk
• gait
• behavior
• vehicle
• Comport
• Demean
• carry
• behove
• tally
• consist
• harmonize
• match
• agree
• suit
• coincide
• Convoy
• Escort
• guard
• protection

Related words: (words related to CONDUCT)

• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• BEHOVE
  , and derivatives. See Behoove, & c.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• CONVOY
  To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym:
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic