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State or condition of a creator.

The condition of being a creature.

lief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.

The condition of being crenate.

A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated. Coming critically the night before the session. Bp. Burnet.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

The condition of being crude; rawness.

Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.

One accused of, or ar An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior.

The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.

Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds. The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative. Trench.

A condition in which, from insufficient aCyanopathy.

The quality or condition of being cylindrical.

agnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.