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▪ I. conditionate, a. and n.|kənˈdɪʃənət|
[ad. med.L. conditiōnāt-us, pa. pple. of conditiōnāre: cf. F. conditionné.]
Conditioned; subject to or limited by conditions; formerly said of limited monarchs.
1533[see conditionate v. 1].
1596Bell Surv. Popery iii. iii. 202 The will absolute, and will conditionate. c1643Maximes Unfolded 40 Sometimes they are for an absolute Emperour, and then..for one conditionate. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 12 The Dominion..is not absolute but limited and conditionate. 1699Burnet 39 Art. Pref. 8 The Doctrine of Conditionate Decrees.
B. n. A thing conditioned; a thing depending upon a condition; a contingency.
1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 156 Future conditionates cannot be the object of Divine Science. 1846Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. 880 Every sensation has not a Perception proper as its conditionate. 1875Veitch Lucretius 51 Similar conditionates or consequents.
▪ II. conditionate, v.|kənˈdɪʃəneɪt|
[ad. med.L. conditiōn-āre to impose a condition, to limit, f. L. condiciōn-em: cf. F. conditionner.]
†1. To make conditions, agree upon conditions, stipulate. trans. and intr. Obs.
1533Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 55 The faith and band of trewis, as it was condicionate afore be Romulus, was inviolately observit be the Veanis. 1642W. Ball Caveat for Subjects 4 They have power to conditionate with their Kings or Princes.
2. trans. To affect, regulate, or limit, as a condition; to be, or act as, a condition of.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 129 We cannot..conceive any science therein which suspends and conditionates its eruption. 1852–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1424/1 The different degree of this..metamorphosis..conditionates the difference of its anatomical development. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. v. §2. 319 This impression of John's may have been further conditionated by his knowledge of the sanctity and mystery of Christ's birth.
†3. To determine the condition of; to qualify.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. iv. 289 So is it usuall..to qualifie and conditionate the twelve moneths of the year, answerably unto the temper of the twelve daies in Christmas.
4. = condition v. 3. rare.
1848J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies (1857) 153 A complete denial of what is represented in the condition, and..in the clause conditionated.
Hence conˈditionating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. xviii. i, That this conditionating of subjects was no other than an affront to their new master. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 114 Were [these arts] any whit the better, or safer, for those cautionings and conditionatings, so prerequired? 1888A. M. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 717 The high necessities belonging to his [Augustine's] theistic thought were qualified..by his artificial and conditionating sacerdotalism. |