Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-DE-SCEN'SIVE, a.

Condescending; courteous. – Barrow.

CON-DE-SCENT', n.

Condescension. [Not used.] – Bp. Hall.

CON-DIGN', a. [condi'ne; L. condignus; con and dignus, worthy. See Dignity.]

1. Deserved; merited; suitable: applied usually to punishment; as, the malefactor has suffered condign punishment.
2. Worthy; merited; as, condign praise. – Spenser. Shak. [In the latter sense, seldom used.]

CON-DIG'NI-TY, n.

Merit; desert. In school divinity, the merit of human actions which claims reward, on the score of justice. – Milner.

CON-DIGN'LY, adv. [condi'nely.]

According to merit.

CON-DIGN'NESS, n. [condi'ness.]

Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

CON'DI-MENT, n. [L. condimentum, from condio, to season, pickle or preserve.]

Seasoning; sauce; that which is used to give relish to meat or other food, and to gratify the taste. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. – Bacon.

CON-DIS-CI'PLE, n. [L. condiscipulus; con and discipulus. See Disciple.]

A school-fellow; a learner in the same school, or under the same instructor.

CON-DITE', v.t. [L. condio, conditum.]

To prepare and preserve with sugar, salt, spices, or the like; to pickle; as, to condite pears, plums, quinces, mushrooms, &c. [Little used.] – Grew. Taylor.

CON-DITE'MENT, n.

A composition of conserves, powders, and spices, in the form of an electuary. [Little used.] – Bailey.

CON-DIT'ING, ppr.

Preserving. [Little used.] – Grew.

CON-DI'TION, n. [L. conditio, from condo, to build or make, to ordain; properly, to set or fix, or to set together or in order; con and do, to give; properly, to send.]

1. State; a particular mode of being; applied to external circumstances, to the body, to the mind, and to things. We speak of a good condition or a bad condition, in reference to wealth and poverty; in reference to health and sickness; in reference to a cheerful or depressed disposition of mind; and with reference to a sound or broken, perishing state of things. The word signifies a setting or fixing, and has a very general and indefinite application, coinciding nearly with state, from sto, to stand, and denotes that particular frame, form, mode, or disposition, in which a thing exits, at any given time. A man is in a good condition, when he is thriving. A nation, with an exhausted treasury, and burdened with taxes, is not in a condition to make war. A poor man is in a humble condition. Religion affords consolation to man in every condition of life. Exhortations should be adapted to the condition of the mind. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; / Bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Pope.
2. Quality; property; attribute. It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others. Bacon.
3. State of the mind; temper; temperament; complexion. [See No. 1.] Shak.
4. Moral quality; virtue or vice. – Ralegh. South. [These senses however fall within the first definition.]
5. Rank, that is, state with respect to the orders or grades of society, or to property; as, persons of the best condition. – Clarendon.
6. Terms of a contract or covenant; stipulation; that is, that which is set, fixed, established or proposed. What are the conditions of the treaty? Make our conditions with yon captive king. – Dryden. He sendeth and desireth conditions of peace. – Luke xiv.
7. A clause in a bond, or other contract containing terms or a stipulation that it is to be performed, and in case of failure, the penalty of the bond is to be incurred.
8. Terms given, or provided, as the ground of something else; that which is established, or to be done, or to happen, as requisite to another act; as, I will pay a sum of money, on condition you will engage to refund it. A condition is a clause of contingency, on the happening of which the estate granted may be defeated. – Blackstone.

CON-DI'TION, v.i.

To make terms; to stipulate; as, it is one thing to condition for a good office, and another to execute it.

CON-DI'TION, v.t.

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

CON-DI'TION-AL, a.

1. Containing or depending on a condition or conditions; made with limitations; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms. A conditional promise is one which is to be performed, when something else stipulated is done or has taken place. A conditional fee, in law, is one which is granted upon condition, that if the donee shall die without such particular heirs as are specified, the estate shall revert to the donor. Hence it is a fee restrained to particular heirs, to the exclusion of others.
2. In grammar and logic, expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense; a conditional syllogism.

CON-DI'TION-AL, n.

A limitation. – Bacon.

CON-DI'TION-AL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

CON-DI'TION-AL-LY, adv.

With certain limitations; on particular terms or stipulations; not absolutely or positively. We see large preferments tendered to him, but conditionally, upon his doing wicked offices. South.

CON-DI'TION-A-RY, a.

Conditional; stipulated. [Not used.] – Norris.

CON-DI'TION-ATE, a.

Conditional; established on certain terms. [Not used.] – Hammond.

CON-DI'TION-ATE, v.t.

To qualify; to regulate. [Not in use.] – Brown.

CON-DI'TION-ED, pp.

1. Stipulated; containing terms to be performed.
2. adj. Having a certain state or qualities. This word is usually preceded by some qualifying term; as, good-conditioned; ill-conditioned; best-conditioned.

CON-DI'TION-ING, ppr.

Making terms or conditions in stipulations.

CON-DI'TION-LY, adv.

On certain terms. [Not used.] – Sidney.

CON'DI-TO-RY, n. [L. conditorium, from condo, to hide.]

A repository for holding things.