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The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want. Urge the necessity and state of times. Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. Clarendon.

In a needy condition or manner; necessarily. Chaucer.

The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.

A prohibition against proceeding further; an insuperable obstacle or limiting condition. [Obs. or R.]

e in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections.

ympathetic system, under Sympathetic, and Illust. in Appendix. -- Nervous temperament, a condition of body characterized by a general predominance of mental manifestations. Mayne.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference. Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects. Addison.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of tobacco.

A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety,…

Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson.

A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding. South.

The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift.

The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime. They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety. Addison.

The state or condition of being nowhere. [Obs.]

lid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. "To nurse the saplings tall." Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion Locke.

living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.

The condition of being obdiplostemonous.