n. The particular mode of being of a person or thing; situation, with reference either to internal or to external circumstances; existing state or case; plight; circumstances.n. Quality; property; attribute; characteristic.n. A state or characteristic of the mind; a habit; collectively, ways; disposition; temper.n. Rank; state, with respect to the orders or grades of society or to property: used absolutely in the sense of high rank: as, a person of condition.n. A requisite; something the non-concurrence or non-fulfilment of which would prevent a result from taking place; a prerequisite.n. Hence A restricting or limiting circumstance; a restriction or limitation.n. A stipulation; a statement of terms; an agreement or consideratíon demanded or offered in return for something to be granted or done, as in a bargain, treaty, or other engagement.n. In law: A statement that a thing is or shall be, which constitutes the essential basis or an essential part of the basis of a contract or grant; a future and uncertain act or event not belonging to the very nature of the transaction, on the performance or happening of which the legal consequences of the transaction are made to depend.n. In civil law, a restriction incorporated with an act, the consequence of which is to make the effect of the volition or intention dependent wholly or in part upon an external circumstance.n. In a college or school: The requirement, made of a student upon failure to reach a certain standard of scholarship, as in an examination, that a new examination be passed before he can be advanced in a given course or study, or can receive a degree: as, a condition in mathematics.n. The study to which such requirement is attached: as, he has six conditions to make up.n. In grammar, the protasis or conditional clause of a conditional sentence. See conditional sentence, under conditional.n. In the theory of errors, an equation expressing an observation with the conditions under which it was taken.n. Article, terms, provision, arrangement.To form a condition or prerequisite of; determine or govern.To subject to something as a condition; make dependent or conditional on: with on or upon: as, he conditioned his forgiveness upon repentance.In metaphysics, to place or cognize under conditions.To stipulate; contract; arrange.In mercantile language, to test (a commodity) in order to ascertain its condition; specifically, to test (silk) in order to know the proportion of moisture it contains.To require (a student) to be reëxamined, after failure to show the attainment of a required degree of scholarship, as a condition of remaining in the class or college, or of receiving a degree. See condition, n., 9.In the tobacco trade, to spray with a 2-per-cent. solution of glycerin. This operation is performed only on chewing, plug, and cigarette tobaccos.