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<blockquote>The <b>condition</b> of a saint and the complexion of a devil. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.</def>

<blockquote>I had as lief take her dowry with this <b>condition</b>, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the <b>condition</b> of repentance. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.</def>

<i>Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton.</i>

<cs><col>Equation of condition</col>. <fld>(Math.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Equation</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>On</col> &or; <col>Upon condition (that)</col></mcol>, <cd>used for <i>if<i> in introducing conditional sentences. "<i>Upon condition<i> thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him."</cd> <i>Shak.</i> -- <col>Conditions of sale</col>, <cd>the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- State; situation; circumstances; station; case; mode; plight; predicament; stipulation; qualification; requisite; article; provision; arrangement. See <er>State</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Con*di"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Conditioned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Conditioning</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make terms; to stipulate.</def>

<blockquote>Pay me back my credit, And I'll <b>condition</b> with ye. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.</def>

<blockquote>To think of a thing is to <b>condition</b>. <i>Sir W. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*di"tion</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>conditionare</ets>. See <er>Condition</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.</def>

<blockquote>Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow <b>conditioning</b> their march. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To contract; to stipulate; to agree.</def>

<blockquote>It was <b>conditioned</b> between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(U. S. Colleges)</fld> <def>To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; <as>as, to <ex>condition</ex> a student who has failed in some branch of study</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).</def>

<i>McElrath.</i>

<-- 5. <def>train; acclimate.</def> -->

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<hw>Con*di"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>conditionalis</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; <as>as, a <ex>conditional</ex> promise</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this <b>conditional</b> punishment annexed and declared. <i>Bp. Warburton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Gram. & Logic)</fld> <def>Expressing a condition or supposition; <as>as, a <ex>conditional</ex> word, mode, or tense</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>conditional</b> proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. <i>Whately.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The words hypothetical and <b>conditional</b> may be . . . used synonymously. <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>