condition

Forms

1.A state or quality.
- Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
- A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
- My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
2.A requirement.
- Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
- The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
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.

1.To subject to the process of acclimation.
- Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor.
- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
2.To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
3.To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
4.To place conditions or limitations upon.
- Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.

Common· #675

From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio.

An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio.