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adjective

Conditional adj.

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."

(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." "The words hypothetical and conditional may be... used synonymously."

noun

Conditional n.

A limitation. (Obs.)

A conditional word, mode, or proposition. "Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals."

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"Conditional" Quotes from Famous Books

... received by the Johannesburg people were to the effect that the surrender had been conditional upon the sparing of the lives of the force. Indeed the first reports agreed that Jameson upon receipt of the High Commissioner's proclamation, had laid down his arms; but upon the return of Mr. Lace (whose mission has been explained) it was realized that this was not ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... Jehovah as his absolute and only hope.[1] [Footnote 1: Ch. xvii. 19-27 is almost certainly post-exilic, and probably belongs to Nehemiah's time (about 450). Jeremiah nowhere else emphasizes the Sabbath, and it would be very unlike him to represent the future prosperity of Judah as conditional upon the people's observance of a single law, especially one not distinctively ethical. Such emphasis on the Sabbath suggests the post-exilic church (cf. ...

— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen

... poor woman as fifty to five hundred: the Scripture does not even determine that Simon was, in point of fact, forgiven at all. In its application to the case in hand, the Lord's instruction is equivalent to the conditional formula, If you have been forgiven fifty pence, and she five hundred, whether will she or you experience the more fervent gratitude to your common benefactor? This, I think, is the only true and consistent method of applying the parable to the experience ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... decline of life determined to resign his temporal honours, and to devote himself exclusively to religion. In pursuance of this object, he obtained the Bishopric of Salisbury, to which he gave certain lands, but annexed to the gift the following conditional curse: "That whosoever should take those lands from the Bishopric, or diminish them in great or small, should be accursed, not only in this world, but in the world to come, unless in his lifetime he made restitution thereof." In a strange and wonderful manner this curse is said ...

— Strange Pages from Family Papers • T. F. Thiselton Dyer

... number of the persons named in this conditional attaint are excepted from it specially, by a following clause, unless the king should go to England (their usual residence) before 1st October, 1689, and that after his arrival they should neglect to signify their loyalty to the ...

— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

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