a. and sb. Obs. [ad. med.L. conditiōnāri-us (for condic-) = condiciōnālis conditional: see -ARY.]
A. adj. = CONDITIONAL, hypothetical.
1665. Flecknoe, Enigm. Char., 110. She troubles her self besides with conditionary thoughts of things that ne’er were, nor are, nor are like to be.
B. sb. Something of the nature of a condition; a stipulation.
1678. Norris, Coll. Misc. (1699), 191. Would God in mercy dispense with it as a conditionary, yet we could not be happy without it.
