[ad. med.L. conditiōn-āre to impose a condition, to limit, f. L. condiciōn-em: cf. F. conditionner.]
† 1. To make conditions, agree upon conditions, stipulate. trans. and intr. Obs.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. (1822), 55. The faith and band of trewis, as it was condicionate afore be Romulus, was inviolately observit be the Veanis.
1642. W. Ball, Caveat for Subjects, 4. They have power to conditionate with their Kings or Princes.
2. trans. To affect, regulate, or limit, as a condition; to be, or act as, a condition of.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 129. We cannot … conceive any science therein which suspends and conditionates its eruption.
1852–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1424/1. The different degree of this … metamorphosis … conditionates the difference of its anatomical development.
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., V. § 2. 319. This impression of John’s may have been further conditionated by his knowledge of the sanctity and mystery of Christ’s birth.
† 3. To determine the condition of; to qualify.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. iv. 289. So is it usuall … to qualifie and conditionate the twelve moneths of the year, answerably unto the temper of the twelve daies in Christmas.
4. = CONDITION v. 3. rare.
1848. J. W. Gibbs, Philol. Studies (1857). 153. A complete denial of what is represented in the condition, and … in the clause conditionated.
Hence Conditionating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. O. T., XVIII. i. That this conditionating of subjects was no other than an affront to their new master.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 114. Were [these arts] any whit the better, or safer, for those cautionings and conditionatings, so prerequired?
1888. A. M. Fairbairn, in Contemp. Rev., Nov., 717. The high necessities belonging to his [Augustine’s] theistic thought were qualified … by his artificial and conditionating sacerdotalism.
