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<blockquote>Whose <b>condemnation</b> is pronounced. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The state of being condemned.</def>

<blockquote>His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of <b>condemnation</b>. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The ground or reason of condemning.</def>

<blockquote>This is the <b>condemnation</b>, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. <i>John iii. 19.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Condemnatory</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*dem"na*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; <as>as, a <ex>condemnatory</ex> sentence or decree</as>.</def>

<h1>Condemned</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*demned"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Used for condemned persons.</def>

<blockquote>Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the <b>condemned</b> ward of Newgate. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Condemner</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*dem"ner</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who condemns or censures.</def>

<h1>Condensability</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*den`sa*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Capability of being condensed.</def>

<h1>Condensable</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*den"sa*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>condensable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being condensed; <as>as, vapor is <ex>condensable</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Condensate</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*den"sate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>condensatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>condensare</ets>. See <er>Condense</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>Made dense; condensed.</def>

<blockquote>Water . . . thickened or <b>condensate</b>. <i>Peacham.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Condensate</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con*den"sate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Condensated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Condensating</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To condense.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Hammond.</i>

<h1>Condensation</h1> <Xpage=297>

<hw>Con`den*sa"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>condensatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>condensation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.</def>

<blockquote>He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and <b>condensation</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the <i>condensation</i> of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.</def>

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