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Conditional

Con-di'tion-al, a.

adjective

(kon-dish'un-al), a. [Lat. conditionalis.]

Sense 1. Containing, 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. Warrenton.

Sense 2. (Gram. & Logic.) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense; a conditional syllogism.

Con-di'tion-al, n.

noun

n. A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon.