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condition

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1. condition - Noun

2. condition - Verb

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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.

Essential quality; property; attribute.

Temperament; disposition; character.

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.

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.

To make terms; to stipulate.

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.

To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

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.

To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

train; acclimate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor. Ignatius of Antioch

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good. Basil of Caesarea

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein

Who changes his condition changes fortune. Italian Proverb

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. French Proverb

When the plough enters a house, so does the condition of the family become vile. Tuareg Proverb

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