To follow or mark a path toward.
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The old larder gate now serves as the common way to the church, for those who live on the north side, where eighteen or nineteen stone steps lead up to a paved alley, once a gallery of the dormitories, dorture, or lodging rooms of the monks, now for the most part in ruins, or converted to gardens, which we shall next proceed to describe.
Submitted on July 07, 2010
Additional definitions for 'lead up to':
| lead up to | To set in motion; to act as a causal or preparatory event or sequence of events. |
| lead up to | To precede in time. |
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