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ding on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton.

The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

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

Unconditional. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

ntain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

en to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.

one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations. Angle of commutation (Astron.), the difference of the geocentric longitudes of the sun and a pl…

. (Math.) See under Equation. -- On or Upon condition (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him." Shak. -- Conditions of sale, the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the ins…

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

Conditionally. [Obs.]

ould be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally. Abbott.

Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott.

Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title. Bacon.

llments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right th…