(n.) 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.
(n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
(n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
(v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or
conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be
impossible.
(n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or
qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
(n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion
of moisture it contains).
(n.) train; acclimate.
