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Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.

Con*di"tion*ate (?), v. t. 1. To qualify by conditions; to regulate. [Obs.]

2. To put under conditions; to render conditional.

Con*di"tioned (?), a. 1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.

The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak.

2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.

Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. Sir W. Hamilton.

Con*di"tion*ly, adv. Conditionally. [Obs.]

Con"di*to*ry (?), n.; pl. Conditories (#). [L. conditorium, fr. condere to hide. See Recondite.] A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

Con*dog" (?; 115), v. i. [A punning corruption of concur.] To concur; to agree. [Burlesque]

&fist; This word appears in early dictionaries as a synonym for the word agree; thus. "Agree; concurre, cohere, condog, condescend." Cockeram.

Con*do"la*to*ry (?), a. Expressing condolence. Smart.

Con*dole" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Condoled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Condoling.] [L. condolere; con- + dolere to feel pain, grieve. See Doleful.] To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.

Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

Con*dole", v. t. To lament or grieve over. [R.]

I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton.

Con*dole"ment (?), n. 1. Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton.

2. Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak.

Con*do"lence (?), n. [Cf. F. condolÚance.] Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele.

A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.

Con*dol"er (?), n. One who condoles.

Con`do*na"tion (?), n. [L. condonatio a giving away.] 1. The act of condoning or pardoning.

2. (Law) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton.

Con*done" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Condoning.] [L. condonare, - donatum, to give up, remit, forgive; con- + donare to give. See Donate.] 1. To pardon; to forgive.

A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned. W. Black.

It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns. J. C. Shairp.

2. (Law) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.

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