conduce

verb7

1. •
   (formal) To contribute or lead to a specific result.

   • The reasons you alleadge, do more conduce / To the hot passion of distempred blood, / Then to make vp a free determination / Tvvixt right and vvrong: […] — 1602
2. •
   (formal, no longer used) To cause (something) to occur; to bring about.
3. •
   (formal, no longer used) To contribute (something).
4. •
   (formal, no longer used) To conduct or lead (someone or something).

   • At last to conduce things to some order out of this Chaos of confusion, their most learned Historian Elifarni, tooke vpon him to make straight these crooked postures: […] — 1634
5. •
   (no longer used, rare) To advantage or benefit (someone or something).
6. •
   (formal, no longer used) To be advantageous to; to advantage, to benefit.

   • Decoctions are made of Leaves, Roots, Flovvers, Seeds, Fruits, or Barks, conducing to the cure of the Disease you make them for; in the same manner as they are made as vve shevved you in Syrups. — 1652
7. •
   (no longer used, rare) To carry on or continue (an activity).

   • VVithin my soule there doth conduce a fight / Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparat, / Diuides more vvider then the skie and earth: […] — 1602