Condition
King James Dictionary [1]
CONDITION, n. L., 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 exists, at any given time. A man is in a good condition, when he is thriving. A nation, with an exhausted treasury and burthened 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.
2. Quality property attribute.
It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and belongs to be hidden and unseen to others.
3. State of mind temper temperament complexion. See No. 1. 4. Moral quality virtue or vice.
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. 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.
He sendeth and desireth conditions of peace. Luke 14 .
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.
CONDITION, To make terms to stipulate.
It is one thing to condition for a good office, and another to execute it.
CONDITION, To contract to stipulate.
It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
(2): (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
(3): (n.) 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.
(4): (n.) 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.
(5): (n.) 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.
(6): (n.) 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.
(7): (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(8): (v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
(9): (v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
(10): (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
(11): (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
(12): (n.) train; acclimate.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
A term of a bargain to be performed. It has been debated whether faith should be called the condition of our salvation. If by it we mean a valuable equivalent for the benefit received, or something to be performed in our own strength, or that will be meritorious, it is certainly inapplicable; but if by it be meant that it is only a mean, without which we cannot be saved, in that sense it is not improper. Yet as the term is often made use of improperly by those who are mere legalists, perhaps it would be as well to decline the use of it.
