CONDITION (3)

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Con‐di″tion, v. t. [[Cf. LL. conditionare. See Condition, n.]] 1. 1. 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. 2. 2. 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. 3. 3. (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.
4. 4. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). McElrath.