Conduct
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
from ago, "to lead," properly denotes "a teaching;" then, figuratively, "a training, discipline," and so, the life led, a way or course of life, conduct, 2—Timothy 3:10 , RV, "conduct;" AV, "manner of life." See Life.
lit., "to stand down or set down" (kata, "down," histemi, "to stand"), has, among its various meanings, "the significance of bringing to a certain place, conducting," Acts 17:15 (so the Sept. in Joshua 6:23; 1—Samuel 5:3; 2—Chronicles 28:15 ). See Appoint.
signifies "to set forward, conduct:" see Accompany , No. 4.
King James Dictionary [2]
CONDUCT, n. L., to lead. See Duke.
1. Literally, the act of leading guidance command. So Waller has used it.
Conduct of armies is a princes art.
2. The act of convoying, or guarding guidance or brining along under protection. 3. Guard on the way convoy escort.
These senses are now unusual, though not improper.
4. In a general sense, personal behavior course of actions deportment applicable equally to a good or a bad course of actions as laudable conduct detestable conduct. The word seems originally to have been followed with life, actions, affairs, or other term as the conduct of life the conduct of actions that is, the leading along of life or actions.
Young men in the conduct and manage of actions embrace more than they can hold.
What in the conduct of our life appears.
But by custom, conduct alone is now used to express the idea of behavior or course of life and manners.
5. Exact behavior regular life. Unusual. 6. Management mode of carrying on.
Christianity has humanized the conduct of war.
7. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College in England.
CONDUCT,
1. To lead to bring along to guide to accompany and show the way.
And Judah came to Gilgal--to conduct the king over Jordan. 2 Samuel 19 .
2. To lead to direct or point out the way.
The precepts of Christ will conduct us to happiness.
3. To lead to usher in to introduce to attend in civility.
Pray receive them nobly, and conduct them into our presence.
4. To give a direction to to manage applied to things as, the farmer conducts his affairs with prudence. 5. To lead, as a commander to direct to govern to command as, to conduct an army or a division of troops. 6. With the reciprocal pronoun, to conduct ones self, is to behave. Hence, by a customary omission of the pronoun, to conduct, in an intransitive sense, is to behave to direct personal actions. See the Noun. 7. To escort to accompany and protect on the way.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
(2): (n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
(3): (n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
(4): (n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
(5): (n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
(6): (n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
(7): (n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
(8): (n.) To behave; - with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
(9): (n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
(10): (n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
(11): (v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
(12): (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.
(13): (n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
(Conductitius, a stipendiary) is a term for a chaplain without endowment.
