Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 102
Condemn (v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. -- Matt. xii. 42.
Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. -- Milton.
To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. -- Gray.
And they shall condemn him to death. -- Matt. xx. 18.
The thief condemned, in law already dead. -- Pope.
No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. -- Goldsmith.
Condemn (v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. -- 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.
Condemn (v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
Condemn (v. t.) (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Syn: To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.
Condemn (v.) Express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: {condemn}, {reprobate}, {decry}, {objurgate}, {excoriate}].
Condemn (v.) Declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; "The building was condemned by the inspector".
Condemn (v.) Compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence".
Condemn (v.) Demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her".
Condemn (v.) Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: {sentence}, {condemn}, {doom}].
Condemn (v.) Appropriate (property) for public use; "the county condemned the land to build a highway".
Condemn (v.) [ T ] (C2) （通常指出於道義而）譴責，指責 To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons.
// The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
// The film was condemned for its sexism.
Phrasal verb: Condemn sb to (do) sth
Condemn sb to (do) sth (- Phrasal verb with condemn) (v.) [ T ] 判決，宣判（某人某種刑罰） To say what the punishment of someone who has committed a serious crime will be.
// She was condemned to death and executed two weeks later.
// [ Often passive ] They were condemned to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Condemn sb to sth (- Phrasal verb with condemn) (v.) [ T ] 使（某人）遭受；使（某人）處於（不幸的境地） To make someone suffer in a particular way.
// Poor education condemns many young people to low-paid jobs.
Condemnable (a.) 應受譴責的；應定罪的 Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
Condemnation (n.) 非難，罪的宣告，非難的理由 The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
Condemnation (n.) The state of being condemned.
Condemnation (n.) The ground or reason of condemning.
Condemnation (n.) An expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable; "his uncompromising condemnation of racism" [syn: {disapprobation}, {condemnation}] [ant: {approbation}].
Condemnation (n.) (Law) The act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building).
Condemnation (n.) An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group [syn: {execration}, {condemnation}, {curse}].
Condemnation (n.) The condition of being strongly disapproved of; "he deserved nothing but condemnation".
Condemnation (n.) (Criminal law) A final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: {conviction}, {judgment of conviction}, {condemnation}, {sentence}] [ant: {acquittal}].
Condemnation (n.) [ C or U ] 譴責，指責，聲討 The act of condemning something or someone.
// The shooting of the police officer has received universal condemnation.
Condemnatory (a.) 譴責的；非難的 Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
Condemned (a.) 被判罪的；死刑囚犯的；【口】被詛咒的 Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
Condemned (a.) Used for condemned persons.
Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. -- Macaulay.
Condemner (n.) One who condemns or censures.
Condensability (n.) Capability of being condensed.
Condensable (a.) 可壓縮的；可簡約的 Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.
Condensate (a.) 【罕】濃縮的 Made dense; condensed.
Water . . . thickened or condensate. -- Peacham.
Condensated (imp. & p. p.) of Condensate.
Condensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condensate.
Condensate (v. t.) To condense. [R.] -- Hammond.
Condensate (n.) 濃縮物 A product of condensation.
Condensate (n.) Atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold [syn: condensation, condensate].
Condensation (n.) 縮短；濃縮；縮寫本 [U] [C]；凝聚，凝結；凝結物 [U] [C]；冷凝 [U] The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. -- Macaulay.
Condensation (n.) (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
Condensation (n.) (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.
Condensation product (Chem.), A substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or
more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
Surface condensation, The system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.
Condensation (n.) (Psychoanalysis) An unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams.
Condensation (n.) The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state.
Condensation (n.) Atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold [syn: condensation, condensate].
Condensation (n.) The process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling" [syn: compression, condensation, contraction].
Condensation (n.) A shortened version of a written work [syn: condensation, abridgement, abridgment, capsule].
Condensation (n.) The act of increasing the density of something [syn: condensing, condensation].
Condensative (a.) 易凝縮的；可凝結的 Having the property of condensing.
Condensed (imp. & p. p.) of Condense.
Condensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condense.
Condense (v. i.) （氣體）冷卻成液體（或固體）； 濃縮；凝結 To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. -- H. Spencer.
Condense (v. i.) (Chem.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
Condense (v. i.) (Chem.) To undergo polymerization.
Condense (v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. -- Milton.
The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. -- Motley.
Condense (v. t.) (Chem. & Physics) 壓縮；濃縮；聚集（光線）；縮短，減縮（文章等） To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
Condensed milk, Milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation.
Condensing engine, A steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.
Syn: To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce.
Condense (a.) Condensed; compact; dense. [R.]
The huge condense bodies of planets. -- Bentley.
Condense (v.) Undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" [syn: condense, distill, distil].
Condense (v.) Make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate].
Condense (v.) Remove water from; "condense the milk".
Condense (v.) Cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam".
Condense (v.) Become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed".
Condense (v.) Develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material".
Condense (v.) Compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" [syn: condense, concentrate, contract].
Compare: Dense
Dense (a.) 密集的，稠密的；（煙，霧等）濃厚的 ； 愚鈍的 Closely compacted in substance.
‘As the storm cleared, a dense fog came down.’
Dense (a.) Having the constituent parts crowded closely together.
‘She made her way through the dense undergrowth.’
Dense (a.) [Informal] (Of a person) Stupid.
‘Am I being dense? I don't quite understand.’
Dense (a.) (Of a text) Hard to understand because of its complexity of ideas.
‘A dark, dense novel.’
Condensed (a.) (Psychol) 濃縮的；扼要的；壓縮的 Representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas.
Condensed (a.) Shortened by rewriting with fewer words; -- used of texts; as, a condensed book. Opposite of unabridged.
Syn: abridged.
Condensed (a.) Reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, condensed milk. Opposite of uncondensed.
Syn: concentrated [5].
Condensed (a.) Narrower than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type. Opposite of expanded.
Condenser (n.) One who, or that which, condenses.
Condenser (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
Condenser (n.) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
Condenser (n.) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
Condenser (n.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
Condenser (n.) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine.
Condensible (a.) Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.
Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.
Condescended (imp. & p. p.) of Condescend.
Condescending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condescend.
Condescend (v. i.) 不擺架子；屈尊 [+to-v]；帶著優越感表示親切 [（+to）]；以恩賜態度對待 [+to-v]；【廢】同意；屈從 To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." -- Rom. xii. 16.
Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands? -- Milton.
Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. -- Dryden.
Note: Often used ironically, implying an assumption of superiority.
Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me. -- F. W. Robinson.
Condescend (v. i.) To consent. [Obs.]
All parties willingly condescended heruento. -- R. Carew.
Syn: To yield; stoop; descend; deign; vouchsafe.
Condescend (v.) Behave in a patronizing and condescending manner.
Condescend (v.) Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity [syn: {condescend}, {deign}, {descend}]
Condescend (v.) Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail" [syn: {condescend}, {stoop}, {lower oneself}].
Condescend (v.) Treat condescendingly [syn: {patronize}, {patronise}, {condescend}].
Condescendence (n.) Alt. of Condescendency.
Condescendency (n.) Condescension.
Condescending (a.) (Disapproving) 表現出高（某人）一等的姿態，帶有優越感地對待（某人） Treating someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them.
// I hate the way he's so condescending to his staff!
Condescendingly (adv.) In a condescending manner.
Condescension (n.) 屈尊俯就；高傲態度；謙虛；硬要人家領情的態度 The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.
It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. -- Tillotson.
Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. -- Addison.
Syn: Complaisance; courtesy; affability.
Condescension (n.) The trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior [syn: {condescension}, {superciliousness}, {disdainfulness}].
Condescension (n.) A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient [syn: {condescension}, {disdain}, {patronage}].
Condescension (n.) Affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank; "the queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable" [syn: {condescension}, {condescendingness}].
Condescent (n.) An act of condescension.
Condign (a.) Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.
Condignly (adv.) According to merit.
Condignness (n.) Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.
Condiment (n.) Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.
Condisciple (n.) A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
Condite (a.) Preserved; pickled.
Condite (v. t.) To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.
Condition (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.
I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. -- Shak.
And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? -- Cowley.
The new conditions of life. -- Darwin.
Condition (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others. -- Bacon.
Condition (n.) Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.]
The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil. -- Shak.
Condition (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.
I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. -- Shak.
Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance. -- Jer. Taylor.
Condition (n.) (Law) 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. -- Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton.
Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation.
On condition or Upon condition (that), Used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him." -- Shak.
Conditions of sale, The terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.
Syn: State; situation; circumstances; station; case; mode; plight; predicament; stipulation; qualification; requisite; article; provision; arrangement. See State.
Conditioned (imp. & p. p.) of Condition.
Conditioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condition.
Condition (v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. -- Beau. & Fl.
Condition (v. i.) (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
To think
of a thing is to condition. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Condition (v. t.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to
burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march. -- Tennyson.
Condition (v. t.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Condition (v. t.) (U. S. Colleges) 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.
Condition (v. t.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). -- McElrath.
Condition (n.) Train; acclimate.
Condition (n.) A state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" [syn: condition, status].
Condition (n.) An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation].
Condition (n.) 3: A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition".
Condition (n.) Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take" [syn: circumstance, condition, consideration].
Condition (n.) The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') [syn: condition, shape].
Condition (n.) An illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition".
Condition (n.) (Usually plural) A statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous" [syn: condition, term].
Condition (n.) The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition [syn: condition, experimental condition].
Condition (v.) Establish a conditioned response.
Condition (v.) Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition].
Condition (v.) Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify].
Condition (v.) Put into a better state; "he conditions old cars".
Condition (v.) Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; "I condition my hair after washing it".
Condition, () contracts, wills. In its most extended signification, a condition is a clause in a contract or agreement which has for its object to suspend, to rescind, or to modify the principal obligation; or in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify the devise or bequest. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 730. It ii in fact by itself, in many cases, an agreement; and a sufficient foundation as an agreement in writing, for a bill in equity, praying for a specific performance. 2 Burr. 826. In pleading, according to the course of the common law, the bond and its condition are to some intents and purposes, regarded as distinct things. 1 Saund. Rep. by Wms. 9 b. Domat has given a definition of a condition, quoted by Hargrave, in these words: "A condition is any portion or agreement which regulates what the parties have a mind should be done, if a case they foresee should come to pass." Co. Litt. 201 a.
Condition, () Conditions sometimes suspend the obligation; as, when it is to have no effect until they are fulfilled; as, if I bind myself to pay you one thousand dollars on condition that the ship Thomas Jefferson shall arrive in the United States from Havre; the contract is suspended until the arrival of the ship.
Condition, () The condition sometimes rescinds the contract; as, when I sell you my horse, on condition that he shall be alive on the first day of January, and he dies before that time.
Condition, () A condition may modify the contract; as, if I sell you two thousand bushels of corn, upon condition that my crop shall produce that much, and it produces only fifteen hundred bushels.
Condition, () In a less extended acceptation, but in a true sense, a condition is a future and uncertain event, on the existence or non-existence of which is made to depend, either the accomplishment, the modification, or the rescission of an obligation or testamentary disposition.
Condition, () There is a marked difference between a condition and a limitation. When a in is given generally, but the gift may defeated upon the happening of an uncertain event, the latter is called a condition but when it is given to be enjoyed until the event arrives, it is a limitation. See Limitation; Estates. It is not easy to say when a condition will be considered a covenant and when not, or when it will be holden to be both. Platt on Cov. 71.
Condition, () Events foreseen by conditions are of three kinds. Some depend on the acts of the persons who deal together, as, if the agreement should provide that a partner should not join another partnership. Others are independent of the will of the parties, as, if I sell you one thousand bushels of corn,. on condition that my crop shall not be destroyed by a fortuitous event, or act of God. Some depend in part on the contracting parties and partly on the act of God, as, if it be provided that such merchandise shall arrive by a certain day.
Condition, () A condition may be created by inserting the very word condition, or on condition, in the deed or agreement; there are, however, other words that will do so as effectually, as proviso, if, &c. Bac. Ab. Conditions, A.
Condition, () Conditions are of various kinds; 1. as to their form, they are express or implied. This division is of feudal origin. 2 Woodes. Lect. 138. 2. As to their object, they are lawful or unlawful; 3. as to the time when they are to take effect, they are precedent or subsequent; 4. as to their nature, they are possible or impossible 5. as to their operation, they are positive or negative; 6. is to their divisibility, they are copulative or disjunctive; 7. as to their agreement with the contract, they are consistent or repugnant; 8. as to their effect, they are resolutory or suspensive. These will be severally considered.
Condition, () An express condition is one created by express words; as for instance, a condition in a lease that if the tenant shall not pay the rent at the day, the lessor may reenter. Litt. 328. Vide Reentry.
Condition, () An implied condition is one created by law, and not by express words; for example, at common law, the tenant for life holds upon the implied condition not to commit waste. Co. Litt. 233, b.
Condition, () A lawful or legal condition is one made in consonance with the law. This must be understood of the law as existing at the time of making the condition, for no change of the law can change the force of the condition. For example, a conveyance was made to the grantee, on condition that he should not aliens until be reached the age of twenty-five years. Before he acquired this age be aliened, and made a second conveyance after he obtained it; the first deed was declared void, and the last valid. When the condition was imposed, twenty-five was the age of majority in the state; it was afterwards changed to twenty-one. Under these circumstances the condition was held to be binding. 3 Miss., R. 40.
Condition, () An unlawful or illegal condition is one forbidden by law. Unlawful conditions have for their object, 1st. to do something malum in se, or malum prohibitum; 2d. to omit the performance of some duty required by law 3d. to encourage such act or omission. 1 P. Wms. 189. When the law prohibits, in express terms, the transaction in respect to which the condition is made, and declares it void, such condition is then void; 3 Binn. R. 533; but when it is prohibited, without being declared void, although unlawful, it is not void. 12 S. @ R. 237. Conditions in restraint of marriage are odious, and are therefore held to the utmost rigor and strictness. They are contrary to sound policy, and by the Roman law were all void. 4 Burr. Rep. 2055; 10 Barr. 75, 350; 3 Whart. 575.
Condition, () A condition precedent is one which must be performed before the estate will vest, or before the obligation is to be performed. 2 Dall. R. 317. Whether a condition shall be considered as precedent or subsequent, depends not on the form or arrangement of the words, but on the manifest intention of the parties, on the fair construction of the contract. 2 Fairf. R. 318; 5 Wend. R. 496; 3 Pet, R. 374; 2 John. R. 148; 2 Cain es, R. 352; 12 Mod. 464; 6 Cowen, R. 627 9 Wheat. R. 350; 2 Virg. Cas. 138 14 Mass. R. 453; 1 J. J. Marsh. R. 591 6 J. J. Marsh. R. 161; 2 Bibb, R. 547 6 Litt. R. 151; 4 Rand. R. 352; 2 Burr. 900.
Condition, () A subsequent condition is one which enlarges or defeats an estate or right, already created. A conveyance in fee, reserving a life estate in a part of the land, and made upon condition that the grantee shall pay certain sums of money at divers times to several persons, passes the fee upon condition subsequent. 6 Greenl. R. 106. See 1 Burr. 39, 43; 4 Burr. 1940. Sometimes it becomes of great importance to ascertain whether the condition is precedent or subsequent. When a precedent condition becomes impossible by the act of God, no estate or right vests; but if the condition is subsequent, the estate or right becomes absolute. Co. Litt. 206, 208; 1 Salk. 170.
Condition, () A possible condition is one which may be performed, and there is nothing in the laws of nature to prevent its performance.
Condition, () An impossible condition is one which cannot be accomplished according to the laws of nature; as, to go from the United States to Europe in one day.; such a condition is void. 1 Swift's Dig. 93; 5 Toull. n. 242-247. When a condition becomes impossible by the act of God, it either vests the estate, or does not, as it is precedent or subsequent: when it is the former, no estate vests when the latter, it becomes absolute. Co. Litt. 206, a, 218, a; 3 Pet. R. 374; 1 Hill. Ab. 249. When the performance of the condition becomes impossible by the act of the party who imposed it, the estate is rendered absolute. 5 Rep. 22; 3 Bro. Parl. Cas. 359. Vide 1 Paine's R. 652; Bac. Ab. Conditions, M; Roll. Ab. 420; Co. Litt. 206; 1 Rop. Leg. 505; Swinb. pt. 4, s. 6; Inst. 2, 4, 10; Dig. 28, 7, 1; Id. 44, 7, 31; Code 6, 25, 1; 6 Toull. n. 486, 686 and the article Impossibility.
Condition, () A positive condition requires that the event contemplated shall happen; as, If I marry. Poth. Ob. part 2, c. 3, art. 1, Sec. 1.
Condition, () A negative condition requires that the event contemplated shall not happen as If I do not marry. Potb. Ob. n. 200.
Condition, () A copulative condition, is one of several distinct-matters, the whole of which are made precedent to the vesting of an estate or right. In this case the entire condition must be performed, or the estate or right can never arise or take place. 2 Freem. 186. Such a condition differs from a disjunctive condition, which gives to the party the right to perform the one or the other; for, in this case, if one becomes impossible by the act of God, the whole will, in general, be excused. This rule, however, is not without exception. 1 B. & P. 242; Cro. Eliz. 780; 5 Co. 21; 1 Lord Raym. 279. Vide Conjunctive; Disjunctive.
Condition, () A disjunctive condition is one which gives the party to be affected by it, the right to perform one or the other of two alternatives.
Condition, () A consistent condition is one which agrees with other parts of the contract.
Condition, () A repugnant condition is one which is contrary to the contract; as, if I grant to you a house and lot in fee, upon condition that you shall not aliene, the condition is repugnant and void, as being inconsistent with the estate granted. Bac. Ab. Conditions L; 9 Wheat. 325; 2 Ves. jr. 824.
Condition, () A resolutory condition in the civil law is one which has for its object, when accomplished the revocation of the principal obligation. This condition does not suspend either the existence or the execution of the obligation, it merely obliges the creditor to return what he has received.
Condition, () A suspensive condition is one which suspends the fulfilment of the obligation until it has been performed; as, if a man bind himself to pay one -hundred dollars, upon condition that the ship Thomas Jefferson shall arrive from Europe. The obligation, in this case, is suspended until the arrival of the ship, when the condition having been performed, the obligation becomes absolute, and it is no longer conditional. A suspensive condition is in fact a condition precedent.
Condition, () Pothier further divides conditions into potestative, casual and mixed.
Condition, () A potestative condition is that which is in the power of the person in whose favor it is contracted; as, if I engage to give my neighbor a sum of money, in case he outs down a tree which obstructs my. prospect. Poth. Obl. Pt. 2, c. 3, art. 1, Sec. 1.
Condition, () A casual condition is one which depends altogether upon chance, and not in the power of the creditor, as the following: if I have children; if I have no children; if such a vessel arrives in the United States, &c. Poth. Ob. n. 201.
Condition, () A mixed condition is one which depends on the will of thecreditor and of a third person; as, if you marry my cousin. Poth. Ob. n. 201. Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Condition, () persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise. Thus the situation arising from marriage gives rise to the conditions of husband and wife that of paternity to the conditions of father and child. Domat, tom. 2, liv. 1, tit. 9, s. 1, n. 8.
Condition, () In contracts every one is presume to know the condition of the person with whom he deals. A man making a contract with an infant cannot recover against him for a breach of the contract, on the ground that he was not aware of his condition.
Conditional (a.) Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. -- Bp. Warburton.
Conditional (a.) (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. -- Whately.
The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. -- J. S. Mill.
Conditional (n.) A limitation. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Conditional (n.) A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. -- L. H. Atwater.
Conditional (a.) Qualified by reservations.
Conditional (a.) Imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional, unconditioned].
Conditionality (n.) The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
Conditionality (n.) The state of being conditional.
Conditionally (adv.) In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. -- Shak.
Conditionally (adv.) Subject to a condition; "he accepted the offer conditionally" [ant: unconditionally].
Conditionate (a.) Conditional. [Obs.]
Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. -- Bp. Hall.
Conditionate (v. t.) To qualify by conditions; to regulate. [Obs.]
Conditionate (v. t.) To put under conditions; to render conditional.
Conditioned (a.) Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.
The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. -- Shak.
Conditioned (a.) Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.
Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Conditioned (a.) Made softer by washing with a chemical agent called a conditioner [3].
Conditioned (a.) Established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response" [syn: conditioned, learned] [ant: innate, unconditioned, unlearned].
Conditioned (a.) Physically fit; "exercised daily to keep herself in condition" [syn: conditioned, in condition(p)].
Conditioner (n.) Exercise that conditions the body; as, farmwork can be a good conditioner.
Conditioner (n.) A trainer of athletes.
Conditioner (n.) A substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer.
Conditioner (n.) Exercise that conditions the body; "farm work can be a good conditioner".
Conditioner (n.) A trainer of athletes.
Conditioner (n.) A substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer.
Conditioner (n.) [ C or U ] 護髮素 A thick liquid that you put on and wash off your hair after you have washed it, to improve the quality and appearance of your hair.
Conditioner (n.) [ C or U ] （衣物）柔順劑 A thick liquid that you wash clothes in to make them feel soft.
// Fabric conditioner.
Conditionly (adv.) Conditionally. [Obs.]
Conditories (n. pl. ) of Conditory.
Conditory (n.) A repository for holding things; a hinding place.
Condog
(v. i.)
To concur; to agree. [Burlesque]
Note: This word appears in early dictionaries as a synonym
for the word agree; thus. "Agree; concurre, cohere,
condog, condescend." -- Cockeram.
Condolatory (a.) Expressing condolence. -- Smart.
Condoled (imp. & p. p.) of Condole.
Condoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condole.
Condole (v. i.) 哀悼；同情 To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.
Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. -- Sir W. Temple.
Condole (v. t.) To lament or grieve over. [R.]
I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. -- Milton.
Condole (v.) Express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death; "You must condole the widow".
Condole (v. i.) To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
Condolement (n.) 弔唁；弔慰；慰問 Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." -- Milton.
Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. -- Shak.
Condolence (n.) （常複數）弔辭；弔唁；慰問 Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
Their congratulations and their condolences. -- Steele.
A special mission of condolence. -- Macaulay.
Condolence (n.) An expression of sympathy with another's grief; "they sent their condolences" [syn: condolence, commiseration].
Condoler (n.) One who condoles.
Condoler (n.) (pl. C ondolers) A person who condoles.
Condom (n.) （男用）避孕套，保險套； （女用）避孕套 Contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic].
Compare: Prophylactic
Prophylactic (a.) 預防疾病的 Intended to prevent disease.
‘Prophylactic measures.’
Prophylactic (n.) 預防藥；預防法 A medicine or course of action used to prevent disease.
‘I took malaria prophylactics.’
Compare: Malaria
Malaria (n.) [U] 瘧疾；汙濁的空氣，瘴氣 An intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells. The parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes in many tropical and subtropical regions.
The parasite belongs to the genus Plasmodium (phylum Sporozoa) and is transmitted by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles.
Prophylactic (n.) [North American] 避孕用具 A condom.
Condom (n.) The protective plastic bag that accompanies 3.5-inch microfloppy diskettes. Rarely, also used of (paper) disk envelopes. Unlike the write protect tab, the condom (when left on) not only impedes the practice of { SEX but has also been shown to have a high failure rate as drive mechanisms attempt to access the disk ? and can even fatally frustrate insertion.
Condom (n.) The protective cladding on a light pipe.
Condom (n.) Keyboard condom: A flexible, transparent plastic cover for a keyboard, designed to provide some protection against dust and programming fluid without impeding typing.
Condom (n.) Elephant condom: the plastic shipping bags used inside cardboard boxes to protect hardware in transit.
Condom (n.) (Obs.) A dummy directory /usr/tmp/sh, created to foil the Great Worm by exploiting a portability bug in one of its parts. So named in the title of a comp.risks article by Gene Spafford during the Worm crisis, and again in the text of The Internet Worm Program: An Analysis, Purdue Technical Report CSD-TR-823.
Condom () The protective plastic bag that accompanies 3.5-inch microfloppy diskettes. Rarely, also used of (paper) disk envelopes. Unlike the write protect tab, the condom (when left on) not only impedes the practice of SEX but has also been shown to have a high failure rate as drive mechanisms attempt to access the disk - and can even fatally frustrate insertion.
Condom () The protective cladding on a light pipe.
Condom () "Keyboard condom": A flexible, transparent plastic cover for a keyboard, designed to provide some protection against dust and programming fluid without impeding typing.
Condom () "Elephant condom": the plastic shipping bags used inside cardboard boxes to protect hardware in transit.
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Condonation (n.) 寬恕；【律】（夫妻間對對方之）通姦寬恕 The act of condoning or pardoning.
Condonation (n.) (Law) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. -- Bouvier. Wharton.
Condonation (n.) A pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred.
Condonation (n.) A term used in the canon law. It is a forgiveness by the husband of his wife, or by a wife of her husband, of adultery committed, with an implied condition that the injury shall not be repeated, and that the other party shall be treated with conjugal kindness. 1 Hagg. R. 773; 3 Eccl. Rep. 310. See 5 Mass. 320 5 Mass. 69; 1 Johns. Ch. R. 488.
Condonation (n.) It may be express or implied, as, if a husband, knowing of his wife's infidelity, cohabit with her. 1 Hagg. Rep. 789; 3 Eccl. R. 338.
Condonation (n.) Condonation is not, for many rea sons, held so strictly against a wife as against a husband. 3 Eccl. R. 830 Id. 341, n.; 2 Edw. R. 207. As all condonations, by operation of law, are expressly or impliedly conditional, it follows that the effect is taken off by the repetition of misconduct; 3 Eccl. R. 329 3 Phillim. Rep. 6; 1 Eccl. R. 35; and cruelty revives condoned adultery. Worsley v. Worsley, cited in Durant v. Durant, 1 Hagg. Rep. 733; 3 Eccl. Rep. 311.
Condonation (n.) In New York, an act of cruelty alone, on the part of the husband, does not revive condoned adultery, to entitle the wife to a divorce. 4 Paige's R. 460. See 3 Edw. R. 207.
Condonation (n.) Where the parties have separate beds, there must, in order to found condonation, be something of matrimonial intercourse presumed; it does not rest merely on the wife's not. withdrawing herself. 3 Eccl. R. 341, n.; 2 Paige, R. 108.
Condonation (n.) Condonation is a bar to a sentence of divorce. 1 Eccl. Rep. 284; 2 Paige, R. 108. In Pennsylvania, by the Act of the 13th of March, 1815, Sec. 7, 6 Reed's Laws of Penna. 288, it is enacted that "in any suit or action for divorce for cause of adultery, if the defendant shall allege and prove that the plaintiff has admitted the defendant into conjugal society or embraces, after he or she knew of the criminal fact, or that the plaintiff (if the husband) allowed of his wife's prostitutions, or received hire, for them, or exposed his wife to lewd company, whereby she became ensnared to the crime aforesaid, it shall be a good defence, and perpetual bar against the same." The same rule may be found, perhaps, in the codes of most civilized countries. Villanova Y Manes, Materia Criminal Forense, Obs. 11, c. 20, n. 4. Vide, generally, 2 Edw. 207; Dev. Eq. R. 352 4 Paige, 432; 1 Edw. R. 14; Shelf. on M. & D. 445; 1 John. Ch. R. 488 4 N. Hamp. R. 462; 5 Mass. 320.
Condoned (imp. & p. p.) of Condone.
Condoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condone.