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verb

Condition 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. "Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march."

2.

To contract; to stipulate; to agree. "It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children."

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).

Condition v. i. (past & past part. conditioned; pres. part. conditioning)

1.

To make terms; to stipulate. "Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye."

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."

adjective

Conditioned adj.

1.

Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. "The best conditioned and unwearied spirit."

2.

Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute. "Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval."

3.

Made softer by washing with a chemical agent called a conditioner 3.

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Etymology of 'Conditioned'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conditioned" Quotes from Famous Books

... poem she reads she finds an illustration of mental and spiritual behavior, and she fain would find the key that will discover the mental operations that conditioned the form of the poem. She would hark back to the primal impulse of each bit of imagery, and she analyzes and appraises each word and line with the zeal and skill of a connoisseur. She would estimate justly and accurately the activities that functioned ...

— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... wrong her. Fair and forty she undoubtedly was, but fat she certainly was not. There was a slight tendency to embonpoint, but this was relieved by her tall and not ungraceful figure. She was what might be termed a decidedly handsome woman. The corpulent lawyer had subsided into the sleek, well-conditioned country gentleman. But there was at times a certain restlessness of the eye, and a nervous twitching at the corners of the mouth, which, to a keen observer, would indicate that he was not always the quiet, self-possessed person that he would have his neighbors to believe. The ...

— Vellenaux - A Novel • Edmund William Forrest

... arched layer around the earth, and so anticipates the actual water covering below which extends spherically around the earth's centre. Thus the stratus arranges itself in a direction which is already conditioned by the earth's field of gravity. In the language of physics, the stratus forms an equipotential surface in the gravitational field permeating ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... the magistrates and conducted to his palace, where the Duchess of Burgundy awaited him holding by the hand Madame Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais. She was about twelve and seemed a lady grown, for she was good and wise, and well conditioned ...

— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam

... wage-earner, and as such a fit subject for organization. If extensive groups of men remain unorganized, the responsibility lies partly on the trade unions, and is partly conditioned by our social and political environment. But either way, a man is a trade unionist or he is not. The line is clear cut, and trade unions therefore admit no one not actually a worker ...

— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry

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