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condition

/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

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What does condition mean?

noun

  1. A state or quality.
  2. A particular state of being.
  3. The health status of a medical patient.
More meanings (15)

noun

  1. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
  2. A requirement or prerequisite.
  3. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
  4. A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
  5. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

verb

  1. To subject to the process of acclimation.
  2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
  3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
  4. To place conditions or limitations upon.
  5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
  6. To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
  7. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
  8. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  9. 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.
  10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
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These locks were braided with gems, and, being worn at full length, intimated the noble birth and free-born condition of the maiden.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82
His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.
Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesProject Gutenberg ebook #98
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I had rather be a country servant-maid Than a great queen with this condition, To be so baited, scorned, and stormed at.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
In a world where doing means marrying, and the commonwealth is one of hearts and hands, the same peril attends the condition.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
Marius, triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase up which he had been borne in a dying condition.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135