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Definition of Lead up
1. Verb. Set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for. "Hitler's attack on Poland led up to World War II"
Generic synonyms: Initiate, Originate, Start
Derivative terms: Initiation, Initiative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead Up
Literary usage of Lead up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"... make the whole series of alloys, every one or two per cent. from pure lead to
pure tin,. and from pure lead up to twenty-four per cent. of antimony. ..."
2. Parsifal: A Festival Music-drama by Richard Wagner, John P. Jackson (1892)
"Stone steps lead up to the battlements. Darkness in the depths below, which are
gained from the ramparts (represented by the stage floor). ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Speculating what she would do with the money for which she sold her milk, she
decided to put it into eggs, which, when hatched, would lead up by slow ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"... fairly and truly, and °to wipe out of consideration in this case everything
that does not attend the case, and lead up to the case. ..."
5. Life of Gustave Doré by Blanchard Jerrold (1891)
"... and the carrying off the golden apples of the Hesperides, lead up to the
cleansing of the stables of Augeas, and the marriage of the hero to Hebe, ..."
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