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This prefixed form of conduire prbably originates from a corruption of escundire ('to refuse') (cf. TLF éconduire).
v.trans.
to fail, fall short in (one's duty):
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s.xiv
) Pour ceo qe grant perte avient sovent des lodmans, qe il se entremet de guier nieff en havenes, et l'esconduit, parount meint mestre et meint marchaunt sount enpoverés [...]
Oak Book ii 98
esconduire (s.xiv)