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In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.

Conditional. [Obs.] Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.

Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak.

Conditionally. [Obs.]

A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

rmy and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.…

faith; trust; confidence. When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them. 1 Macc. x. 46.

A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. ]

ruction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

Worthy of belief. [Obs.] Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow.

The quality of being creditable.

In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.

One who credits, believes, or trusts. The easy creditors of novelties. Daniel.

A female creditor.

The condition of being crude; rawness.

avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

The act of yielding; surrender. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

That which is lost or destroyed. [R.] Paley.

, adv. Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked. [Archaic]

Loss; destruction. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.