condition

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: con=di=tion
• COUNT in NET: 14 in 14 verses (in OT : 11 in 11 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

condition, n. [F., fr. L. conditio (better condicio) agreement, compact, condition; con- + a root signifying to show, point out, akin to dicere to say, dicare to proclaim, dedicate. See Teach, Token.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "I am in my condition
  A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king."  [1913 Webster]

  "And O, what man's condition can be worse
  Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?"  [1913 Webster]

  "The new conditions of life."  [1913 Webster]
•  Essential quality; property; attribute.  [1913 Webster]

  "It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others."  [1913 Webster]
•  Temperament; disposition; character.  [1913 Webster]

  "The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning."  [1913 Webster]

  "Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation. -- On condition or Upon condition (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. “Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him.” Shak. -- Conditions of sale, the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.

Syn. -- State; situation; circumstances; station; case; mode; plight; predicament; stipulation; qualification; requisite; article; provision; arrangement. See State.

condition, v. i. 

•  To make terms; to stipulate.  [1913 Webster]

  "Pay me back my credit,
  And I'll condition with ye."  [1913 Webster]
•  To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.  [1913 Webster]

  "To think of a thing is to condition."  [1913 Webster]

condition, v. t. [Cf. LL. conditionare. See Condition, n.].

•  To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.  [1913 Webster]

  "Seas, that daily gain upon the shore,
  Have ebb and flow conditioning their march."  [1913 Webster]
•  To contract; to stipulate; to agree.  [1913 Webster]

  "It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).  McElrath.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

condition, n. & v.
--n.
1 a stipulation; something upon the fulfilment of which something else depends.
2 a the state of being or fitness of a person or thing (arrived in bad condition; not in a condition to be used). b an ailment or abnormality (a heart condition).
3 (in pl.) circumstances, esp. those affecting the functioning or existence of something (working conditions are good).
4 archaic social rank (all sorts and conditions of men).
5 Gram. a clause expressing a condition.
6 US a subject in which a student must pass an examination within a stated time to maintain a provisionally granted status.
--v.tr.
1 a bring into a good or desired state or condition. b make fit (esp. dogs or horses).
2 teach or accustom to adopt certain habits etc. (conditioned by society).
3 govern, determine (his behaviour was conditioned by his drunkenness).
4 a impose conditions on. b be essential to (the two things condition each other).
5 test the condition of (textiles etc.).
6 US subject (a student) to re-examination.

Idiom

conditioned reflex a reflex response to a non-natural stimulus, established by training. in (or out of) condition in good (or bad) condition. in no condition to certainly not fit to. on condition that with the stipulation that.

Etymology

ME f. OF condicion (n.), condicionner (v.) or med.L condicionare f. L condicio -onis f. condicere (as com-, dicere say)

THESAURUS

condition

abate, ability, abnormality, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, acute disease, adapt, adjust, adjust to, affairs, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, alter, apprentice, assuage, atrophy, attach a condition, attune, bacterial disease, bearings, beat into, birth defect, blight, bound, boundary condition, box in, brainwash, break, break in, breed, bring up, capability, capacitate, capacity, cardiovascular disease, case, case harden, caste, catch, catechize, character, chronic disease, circulatory disease, circumscribe, circumstance, circumstances, class, clause, cobble, commission, competence, competency, complaint, complication, concerns, condition of things, conditions, confine, confirm, congenital defect, conjuncture, contain, contingency, copyright, cultivate, darn, dealings, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, demand, develop, diminish, disability, discipline, disease, disorder, distemper, do up, doctor, doings, domesticate, domesticize, donnee, draw the line, drill, echelon, educate, enable, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, environment, epidemic disease, equip, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, establish, estate, event, eventuality, exception, exemption, exercise, familiarize, fetch up, fettle, fine print, fit, fit out, fit up, fitness, fittedness, fix, fix up, footing, form, foster, functional disease, fungus disease, furnish, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, gentle, get ready, given, goings-on, groom, grounds, habituate, handicap, harden, have a catch, have a joker, health, hedge, hedge about, hereditary disease, hierarchy, house-train, housebreak, iatrogenic disease, ill, illness, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress, improve, incident, inculcate, indisposition, indoctrinate, infectious disease, infirmity, infix, influence, infuse, inoculate, insist upon, instill, inure, jam, joker, juncture, kicker, kilter, leaven, life, limit, limitation, limiting condition, location, lot, make conditional, make contingent, make ready, malady, malaise, march of events, mastery, matters, maturity, mend, mitigate, modality, mode, moderate, modification, modify, modulate, morbidity, morbus, mould, muscular disease, must, narrow, naturalize, necessity, neurological disease, nurse, nurture, nutritional disease, obligation, occasion, occupational disease, occurrence, order, organic disease, orient, orientate, outfit, overhaul, palliate, pandemic disease, parameter, part, pass, patch, patch up, patent, pathological condition, pathology, persuade, pickle, place, plant disease, plight, position, posture, power structure, practice, precedence, predicament, prepare, preparedness, prerequisite, proceedings, proficiency, program, protozoan disease, provision, provisions, proviso, psychosomatic disease, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put in trim, put in tune, put to school, qualification, qualify, quality, quarters, raise, rank, rate, rating, readiness, ready, rear, recap, recondition, reduce, register, regulate by, rehearse, relation, relations, repair, requirement, requisite, reservation, respiratory disease, restrain, restrict, restriction, retread, ripeness, rockiness, role, run of things, saving clause, scant, season, seasoning, secondary disease, seediness, send to school, service, set conditions, set limits, set to rights, sew up, shape, sickishness, sickness, signs, sine qua non, situation, small print, soften, specialize, specification, sphere, spot, stage, standing, state, state of affairs, station, status, stint, stipulate, stipulation, straiten, string, strings, suit, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, take in hand, tame, teach, temper, tempering, term, terms, the pip, the times, the world, tinker, tinker up, train, trim, tune, ultimatum, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, what happens, whereas, wont, worm disease

ROGET THESAURUS

condition

State

N state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character, conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic, conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case.

Repute

N repute, distinction, mark, name, figure, repute, reputation, good repute, high repute, note, notability, notoriety, eclat, the bubble reputation, vogue, celebrity, fame, famousness, renown, popularity, aura popularis, approbation, credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town, name to conjure with, glory, honor, luster, illustriousness, account, regard, respect, reputableness, respectability, good name, good report, fair name, dignity, stateliness, solemnity, grandeur, splendor, nobility, majesty, sublimity, rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status, position, position in society, order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition, greatness, eminence, height, importance, preeminence, supereminence, high mightiness, primacy, top of the ladder, top of the tree, elevation, ascent, superaltation, exaltation, dignification, aggrandizement, dedication, consecration, enthronement, canonization, celebration, enshrinement, glorification, hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis, notability, somebody, classman, man of rank, pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community, chief, first fiddle, cynosure, mirror, flower, pink, pearl, paragon, choice and master spirits of the age, elite, star, sun, constellation, galaxy, ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus, halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors, laurels, memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame, immortality, immortal name, magni nominis umbra, distinguished, distingue, noted, of note, honored, popular, fashionable, in good odor in, favor, in high favor, reputable, respectable, creditable, remarkable, notable, notorious, celebrated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of, famous, famed, far-famed, conspicuous, to the front, foremost, in the front rank, in the ascendant, imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere perennius, time honored, illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant, bright, full-blown, honorific, eminent, prominent, high, in the zenith, at the head of, at the top of the tree, peerless, of the first water, superior, supereminent, preeminent, great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately, august, princely, imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred, sublime, heaven- born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche, sacrosanct, Int, hail!, all hail!, ave!, viva!, vive!, long life to!, banzai!, glory be to, honor be to?, one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever, sic itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus, not to know him argues oneself unknown, none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat, above all Greek above all Roman fame, cineri gloria sera est, great is the glory for the strife is hard, honor virtutis praemium, immensum gloria calcar habet, the glory dies not and the grief is past, vivit post funera virtus.

Nobility

N nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.

Qualification

N qualification, limitation, modification, coloring, allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances, mitigation, condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non, catch, string, strings attached, exemption, exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause, discount, restriction, fine print, qualifying, qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged, conditional, exceptional, hypothetical, contingent, provided, provided that, provided always, if, unless, but, yet, according as, conditionally, admitting, supposing, on the supposition of, with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events, approximately, in a limited degree (smallness), somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak, with grains of allowance, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, exceptis excipiendis, wind and weather permitting, if possible, subject to, conditioned upon, with this proviso, if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't r, catch-, Degrees of Evidence.

Supposition

N supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.