Definition of "condition"

condition

/kənˈdɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural conditions
1. A state or quality.
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  Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 48
  1. A particular state of being.
  2. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
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    [T]his Zeal was now inflamed by Lady Bellaſton, who had told her the preceding Evening, that ſhe was well ſatiſfied from the Conduct of Sophia, and from her Carriage to his Lordſhip, that all Delays would be dangerous, and that the only Way to ſucceed, was to preſs the Match forward with ſuch Rapidity, that the young Lady ſhould have no Time to reflect, and be obliged to conſent while ſhe ſcarce knew what ſhe did. In which Manner, ſhe ſaid, one half of the Marriages among People of Condition were brought about.
    1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Various Matters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], page 142
  3. The health status of a medical patient.
    A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
2. A requirement.
3. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
4. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
verb
third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned
1. To subject to the process of acclimation.
2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
4. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
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  Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.
  1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Golden Year”, in Poems. , published 1846, page 89
5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
6. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
7. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
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  [P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.
  1633 May 21 (licensing date), John Fletcher, James Shirley, “The Night-Walker, or The Little Thief. A Comedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, Act II, scene viii, page 212, column 2
  [I]t was conditioned betweene Saturne and Titan, that Saturne being a yonger brother, and raigning (for his owne life), by Titans permiſſion, he ſhould put to death all his male children, leaſt the Titans might be interrupted by any of them in their ſucceſſion; which agreement becauſe Saturne performed in his firſt borne, it is fained that Saturne deuoured his owne children.
  1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of Idolatrous Corruptions, Quickly Rising, and Hardly at Length Vanishing in the World: […]”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], 1st book, §. V (Of the Three Chiefest Iupiters; and the Strange Storie of the Third), page 88
8. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  Quotations
  divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed
  1868, Once a Week
9. (US, colleges, transitive) 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.
10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
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  "To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.
  1882, John Veitch, “Classification of the Laws of Knowledge—Negative and Positive Thought—Relativity”, in Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott and Co.; Edinburgh: W[illia]m Blackwood and Sons, page 210

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