[ad. med.L. conditiōnāt-us, pa. pple. of conditiōnāre: cf. F. conditionné.] Conditioned; subject to or limited by conditions; formerly said of limited monarchs.
1533. [see CONDITIONATE v. 1].
1596. Bell, Surv. Popery, III. iii. 202. The will absolute, and will conditionate.
c. 1643. Maximes Unfolded, 40. Sometimes they are for an absolute Emperour, and then … for one conditionate.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 12. The Dominion … is not absolute but limited and conditionate.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., Pref. 8. The Doctrine of Conditionate Decrees.
B. sb. A thing conditioned; a thing depending upon a condition; a contingency.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 156. Future conditionates cannot be the object of Divine Science.
1846. Sir W. Hamilton, in Reid’s Wks., 880. Every sensation has not a Perception proper as its conditionate.
1875. Veitch, Lucretius, 51–2. Given antecedents or conditions similar to those which we have observed, we shall experience similar conditionates or consequents in the as yet unobserved.
