Dictionary entry

Condition (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐di″tion (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Conditioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Conditioning.] 1. To make terms; to stipulate.

Pay me back my credit,

And I'll condition with ye.

Beau. & Fl.

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.

Sir W. Hamilton.