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onlead en · VERB

Etymology

From on- + lead. Cognate with Dutch aanleiden (“to lead on, lead further”), German anleiten (“to guide, instruct, teach, direct”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To lead on or forward.
   • The little suggestions of look and tone; the easy fibs and bigger lies; the tricks of persuasion, the onleading wiles — all these I could not master. 1918, Michael Williams, The Book of the High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography, page 41:
   • Thus did the guardian of his crystal cup onlead him in the quest of strength and speed, forewise of that dire approaching day when strength against strength, speed against speed, life against life, he and his mortal foe should be swung […] 1909, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

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