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condition
- /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
noun conditions
- A state or quality. National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
- A particular state of being. Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
- The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank. A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
- The health status of a medical patient. My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness. While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.
- A requirement or prerequisite. Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
verb conditions · conditioning · conditioned
- To subject to the process of acclimation. I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on. After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister's entreaties, and consented to go out […] She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits […]
- To place conditions or limitations upon. Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
- To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner. Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necess
- To contract; to stipulate; to agree. [P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.
- To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed
- 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. to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. "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.
