ppl. a. [f. CONDTION sb. and v.: prob. originally after med.L. conditiōnātus or OF. condicionné.]
I. From the sb.
1. Of persons: Having a (specified) disposition or temperament; -disposed, -tempered, -natured.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 16. Daughtres … welle manered and condicioned.
1526. Tindale, Rom. i. 29. Evill condicioned [1611 full of malignitie].
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., III. ii. 295. The deerest friend to me, the kindest man, The best condition’d.
1613. Wither, Abuses Stript, I. viii. A Crook-back’t Dwarfe … condition’d like an Ape.
1663. F. Hawkins, Youths Behav., 87. A good conditioned wile [uxor bené morata] is the best portion.
a. 1749. Chalkley, Wks. (1766), 204. They were silent and better conditioned to one another afterwards.
1850. Sea Board & the Down, II. 19. An ill-conditioned woman.
b. Having a (specified) social condition; † of (good) condition.
1632. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 12. Her … courtesie … [to] others … how meane conditioned soever.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 390. These conditioned men bee the fittest instruments of such flattery.
2. Of things: In a (specified) condition or state; having a certain condition or nature.
1548. Gest, Pr. Masse, 86. Acknowledging… the common bread and wyne to be nothing less then lyke condicioned.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. vi. 38. Every substaunce is conditioned To chaunge her hew.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 569. Sow in a well conditioned ground that which was growne in an ill conditioned ground.
1681. Yarranton, Eng. Improv., II. 137. We ought to sell our Fish as well conditioned as they.
1805. Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., II. 34. The highest and best conditioned cattle.
1868. Helps, Realmah, i. (1876), 1. What … an ill-conditioned planet!
3. Placed or set in certain conditions, circumstances, or relations: circumstanced, situated.
1831. Coleridge, Table-t., 14 Aug. In countries well governed and happily conditioned.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., II. 564. The creature thus conditioned found by chance Motherhood like a jewel in the muck.
1881. B. Sanderson in Nature, No. 619. 442. A frog so conditioned [with the brain removed] exhibits, as regards its bodily movements, as perfect adaptiveness as a normal frog.
II. From the vb.
4. Settled on conditions; stipulated, bargained.
1632. Brome, Novella, II. i. He bargain’d with her … But in the night In the conditioned bed was laid a Moore.
† 5. Dependent upon conditions, conditional. Obs.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 374. A conditioned, and uncertain expectation of what man would or would not do.
6. Subjected to conditions or limitations.
1841. Emerson, Lect., Conservative, Wks. (Bohn), II. 267. Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude, but an useful, that is, a conditioned one.
1849. W. Smith, Dict. Grk & Rom. Biog., III. 402. The ultimate purpose of all conditioned existence.
1878. T. Sinclair, The Mount, 70. The drama being to him only a more conditioned epic.
7. Dependent upon, or determined by, an antecedent condition.
1860. Mansel, Prolegom. Log., 229. Whenever a condition, whether material cause of a fact or formal reason of a conclusion, exists, the conditioned fact or conclusion exists also.
8. absol. The conditioned: a. Applied to the consequent in a conditional proposition.
1864. Bowen, Logic, iii. 53. This axiom is properly called that of Reason and Consequent or the Condition and the Conditioned. Ibid., vii. 210. To affirm the Reason or the Condition is also to affirm the Consequent or the Conditioned.
b. Metaph. That which is subject to the conditions of finite existence and cognition; opposed to the unconditioned, absolute, or infinite.
1829. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1852), 14. The conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought. Ibid. (1836–7), Metaph., xxxviii. (1870), II. 373. The Conditioned is that which is alone conceivable or cogitable. Ibid. (1846), in Reid’s Wks., 911/2. The Law of the conditioned:—That all positive thought lies between two extremes, neither of which we can conceive as possible, and yet, as mutual contradictories, the one or the other we must recognise as necessary.
1862. Spencer, First Princ. (1880), 81. The Unconditioned therefore, as classable neither with any form of the conditioned nor with any other Unconditioned, cannot be classed at all.
† 9. Used absol. = Provided on the condition.
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., I. (1682), 228. Such of them as … had a desire to stay in Spain … were suffered to do so … conditioned, that they would be Christened. Ibid. (1641), Help to Hist. (1671), 341. The [manor] … was held of old by Grand Sergianty of the Kings of Eng., conditioned that the Grantees should for ever be the Knight Marshals.
