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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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12 words match “CONDUCIVE”

CONDUCIVE a.
Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.
CONDUCIVENESS n.
The quality of conducing.
DISCONDUCIVE a.
Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [R.]
CONDUCENT a.
Conducive; tending. Conducent to the good success of this business. Abp. Laud.
CONDUCIBLE a.
Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.
EXPEDIENT a.
, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be…
FAVORABLE a.
Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.
HEALTHLESS n.
Not conducive to health; unwholesome. [R.]
HEALTHY a.
Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
INSERVIENT a.
Conducive; instrumental. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
SANATORY a.
Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.
WHOLESOME a.
Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Prov. xv. 4. I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. Shak.…