onlead

English

Etymology

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

Verb

onlead (third-person singular simple present onleads, present participle onleading, simple past and past participle onled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To lead on or forward.
   • 1909, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

     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 […]

   • 1918, Michael Williams, The Book of the High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography, page 41:

     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.

Anagrams

• Delano, deanol, enodal, lead on, loaden, loaned