It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
Sir W. Raleigh.
3. (U. S. Colleges) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
4. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). McElrath.
Con*di"tion*al (?), a. [L. conditionalis.] 1. Containing, implying, or depending 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.
2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
Whately.
The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously.
J. S. Mill.
Con*di"tion*al, n. 1. A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon.