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which combined varioufly together, form words, or more 
complicated founds, conveying different ideas in different 
languages, though the form of their alphabet be the fame. 
“ The inhabitants of Puio C.ondore were, it teems, Co- 
chira-chineie, with their defendants, who fled' from-their 
own country, in confeqirence of their attachment to one 
of its fovcreigns, dethroned by feveral of his own fub- 
jefts. It was„propofed to purchafe provifions here; and 
the people pro'miied to have the fpecifled quantity ready, 
if poffible the next day ; a party was difpatched on-fliore 
to receive and pay for the provifions promifed at the vil¬ 
lage ; they were aitoniihed to find it abandoned. The 
houfes were left open, and none of the effefts, nor even 
the poultry feeding about the doors, were taken away. In 
the principal cabin a paper was found, in the Chinele lan¬ 
guage, of which the literal tranflation purported, that 
“ the people of the ifiand were few in number, and very 
poor, yet bond!, and incapable of doing mifchief j but 
felt much terror at the arrival of fuch great (hips and 
powerful perfons, efpdcially as not being able to fatisfy 
their wants in regard to cattle and provifions, of which 
the poor inhabitants of Pulo Condole had (carcely any 
to fupply. They, therefore, through dread and appre- 
henfion, refolved to fly to preferve their lives. That they 
fupplicate the great people to have pity on them ; that they 
left all they had behind them, and only requefted that 
their cabins might not be burnt; and conclude by pro- 
ftrating themfelves to the gr-eut people a hundred times.” 
The writers of this letter had probably received ill treat¬ 
ment from otlyer ftrangers. It was determined.that they 
fliouid not continue to think, ill of all who came to viiit 
them. On their return they .were, perhaps, as much fur- 
prifed to find their houfes itill entire, as their vifitors had 
been who found they were deferred. Nothing was dis¬ 
turbed.; and a fmaU prefent, likely to be acceptable to 
the chief, was left for him in the principal dwelling, with 
a Chinele letter, fignifying, ‘ that the (hips and people were 
Englilh, who called only for refrelhment on fair terms of 
purchafe, without any ill intention ; being from a civi¬ 
lized nation, endowed with principles of humanity, w hich 
did not allow them to plunder or injure others who hap¬ 
pened to be weaker or fewer than themfelves. Another 
contiguous ifiand is called P.ulo Lingen , remarkable for a 
mountain in its center, terminating in a fork, like Par- 
nalfus; but to which the unpoetical l'eamen gave the name 
of affes ears. 
CONDORMIEN'TES, f in church liiftory, religious 
feftaries, who take their name from lying all together, 
men and women, young and old. They arofe in the 13th 
century, near Cologne. . 
CONDRIEU'X, a town cf France fituated on the Rhone; 
celebrated for its wine, produced from vines originally 
brought from Dalmatia by the emperor Probus. It con¬ 
tains about three, thoufand inhabitants: eighteen miles 
below Lyons. 
CONDROZ'', a country of Germany, in the bifhopric 
of Liege, extending from Liege to Dinant. Huy is the 
capital. 
CONDRU'SH, anciently a people of Belgica, originally 
Germans, dwelling about the Maele. Their country is 
now called Condroz, in the bifliopric of Liege, between 
Luxemberg and the Maele. 
'To CONDU'CE, <v. n. [conduce, Lat.] To promote an end; 
to contribute; to ferve to fome purpofe : followed by to. 
—Every man does love or hate things, according as he 
apprehends them to conduce to this end, or to contradift 
it. Tillotfon. 
To CONDUCE, ns. a. To conduct; to accompany, in 
order.to (hew the way.—He*was Cent to conduce hither the 
princefs Henrietta Maria. Wotton. 
CONDU'CIBLE, adj. [conducibilis , Lat.] Having the 
power of conducing; having, a tendency to promote or 
forward : with to. —Our Saviour hath enjoined us a rea¬ 
sonable lervice: all his laws are in themfelves conducible to 
the trmporaUntereft of them that obferve them. Bentley . 
'•COM 
CONDL'CIBLF.NESS,/ The quality of contributing' 
to any ,end. 
CONBU'CIVE, adj. That which may contribute 
having the power of forwarding or promoting: with to .—* 
An aftion, however conducive to the good of our country, 
may be.represented as prejudicial to it. Addifon. —Thole 
proportions of the good things of this life, which are molt 
confiftent with the intereits of the foul, are alio molt con¬ 
ducive to our prefent felicity. Rogers. 
CONDU'CIVENESS,/. The quality of conducing.—I 
mention fome.examples of the conduciveucfs of the lmall- 
nefs of a body’s parts to its fluidity. Boyle. 
CONDUCT, f. [conduit, Fr. con and duitua, Lat.] Ma¬ 
nagement ; economy : 
How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! 
What in the conduit of our life appears 
So well defign’d, lb luckily begun, 
But when we have our’wifh, we wifh undone? Dry den. 
The aft of lending troops; the duty of a general.— Con¬ 
duct of armies is a prince’s-art. IValler .—Convoy; efcorte 3 
guard.—I was afiiamed to alk the king footmen and horfe- 
men, and conduit for Lifeguard againft our adverfaries. 
1 Ej'dras. —/lie aft of convoying or guarding : 
Some three or four of you, 
Go, give him courteous conduit to this place. Shakefpeare . 
A warrant by which a convoy is appointed, or fafety is 
allured. Exaft behaviour; regular life —Though all re¬ 
gard for reputation is not quite laid afide, it is fo low, 
that very few think virtue and conduit of abfolute necef- 
fity for preferving it. Swift. —Conduftor.—Come, bitter 
conduit ; come unlav’ry guide. Shakefpeare. —The official 
title of two perfons appointed to read prayers at Eton 
college. Mafon's Supp. 
Safe CONDUCT, f. A fecurity given by a prince uh > - 
der his great feal to a ftranger for his quiet coming into 
and paffing out cf the realm. A fate conduft; is granted 
to enemies, a paffport to friends. 
To CONDU'CT, v. a. [condufre, Fr.] To lead; to di- 
reft; to accompany, in order to (hew the way.—I (hall 
(trait conduit you to a hill fide, where I will point you out 
the right path. Milton. 
O may thy pow’r propitious (till to me. 
Conduit my (teps to find the fatal tree. Drydeu. 
To uffier, and to attend in civility : 
Pray receive them nobly, and conduit them 
Into our prefence. Shakefpeare. 
To manage ; as, to conduft an affair. To head an army j 
to lead and order troops. 
CONDUCTI'TIOUS, adj. [conduititius, Lat.] Hired j 
employed for wages.—The perfons were neither titularies 
nor perpetual curates, but entirely conduititious, and re¬ 
movable at pleafure. Ayliffe. 
CONDUCTOR,/. A leader; one who (hews another 
the way by accomp; nying him •, 
Shame of change, and fear of future ill; 
And zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden . 
A chief; a general: 
Who is conduiior of his people !— 
As ’tis laid, the baftard Ion oTGlo’fter. Shakefpeare. 
A manager; a direftor.—If he did not entirely prcjeft: 
the union and regency, none will deny him to have been, 
the chief conduiior in both. Addifon. —An initrument to 
put up into the bladder, to direft the knife in cutting for 
the (lone. In eleftricity a rod or wire, ufed for conduct¬ 
ing the eleftrical fluid. Alfo iron rods placed on the tops 
of chinmies, for conveying lightning into the earth, and 
preventing its falling upon or entering the dwelling-houfe. 
See the article Lightning. 
CONDUC'TRESS,/. A woman thatdirefts; direftrefs. 
CONDUIT;/, [conduit, Fr.] A canal of pipes for the 
conveyance 
