Condition
Definition of Condition
Con`di´tion | n. | 1. | Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate. | | 2. | Essential quality; property; attribute. | | 3. | Temperament; disposition; character. | | 4. | 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. | | 5. | (Law) 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.| Equation of condition | | (Math.) See under Equation. |
| | v. i. | 1. | To make terms; to stipulate. Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. - Beau. & Fl. | | 2. | (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.To think of a thing is to condition. - Sir W. Hamilton. | | v. t. | 1. | To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of. | | 2. | To contract; to stipulate; to agree. | | 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. | | 4. | To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). | | 5. | train; acclimate. |
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