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Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [R.]

The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander. "To take the captainship." Shak.

The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal

nature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.

alls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstamces; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10.…

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles. -- Cat`a*plec"tic (#), a.

The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.

The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.

Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I…

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

Condition; rank. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

of the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames.

given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.