*condition*

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Conditioned p. pr. & vb. n. Conditioning. ] 1. To make terms; to stipulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pay me back my credit,
And I'll condition with ye. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. [ 1913 Webster ]

To think of a thing is to condition. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. LL. conditionare. See Condition, n. ] 1. To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seas, that daily gain upon the shore,
Have ebb and flow conditioning their march. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contract; to stipulate; to agree. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (U. S. Colleges) 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, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). McElrath.

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a. [ L. conditionalis. ] 1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A limitation. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. L. H. Atwater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. conditionatus, p. p. See Condition, v. t. ] Conditional. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To qualify by conditions; to regulate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put under conditions; to render conditional. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. [ 1913 Webster ]

The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. made softer by washing with a chemical agent called a conditioner{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. exercise that conditions the body; as, farmwork can be a good conditioner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a trainer of athletes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Conditionally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + conditional: cf. F. inconditionnel. ] Unconditional. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + conditionate: cf. F. inconditionné. ] Not conditioned; not limited; absolute. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Psychol.) A process for causing animals to behave in a specific manner by rewarding or punishing the animal each time it performs a certain act; after a time, the animal comes to associate the reward or punishment with the act, and will increase or decrease the frequency of performing that act. [ PJC ]

n. A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not conditional, limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree,
Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. 1. Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metaph.) Not subject to conditions or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unconditioned (Metaph.), all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or relations. [ 1913 Webster ]