Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To lead into; conduct.

    Helge Lundholm new afferent or inleading processes might be set up tending, themselves, towards the mathematical point of interaction

  2. To lead from within.

    Emanuel Swedenborg When man is in the former state, the Lord inflows and inleads immediately

Origin

From Middle English inleden (“to lead or bring in, introduce”), from Old English inlǣdan (

From Middle English inleden (“to lead or bring in, introduce”), from Old English inlǣdan (“to lead in, bring in, introduce, conduct”), equivalent to in- + lead. Cognate with Dutch inleiden (“to initiate; introduce”), German einleiten (“to initiate; introduce”), Danish indlede (“to introduce”), Swedish inleda (“to introduce”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

inleads, inleading, inled, inled
Base forminlead · to inlead
3rd person singularinleads
Present participleinleading
Past simpleinled
Past participleinled

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyinlead
he, she, itinleads

Past simpleLesson

all personsinled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave inled
he, she, ithas inled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill inlead

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
inlead — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto