Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Conditional; subject to conditions.
  • To condition; qualify; regulate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Conditional.
  • transitive verb obsolete To qualify by conditions; to regulate.
  • transitive verb To put under conditions; to render conditional.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Subject to conditions
  • noun A contingency
  • verb To make, or to regulate by means of conditions

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Examples

  • Others [5] make a general conditionate decree of redemption to be antecedaneous to election; which they assert to be the first discriminating purpose concerning the sons of men, and to depend on the alone good pleasure of God.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • If conditionate, then, — First, How can a conditionate reconciliation be reconciled with that which is actual?

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Now, this must be either an absolute reconciliation or a conditionate.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • I should have expected that this foreknowledge should have been resolved rather into a middle or conditionate prescience than into this pre-approbation, but that our great masters were pleased (in the place newly cited), though without any attempt of proof, to carry it another way.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • I doe imagine (_Poliphilus_) that you doe not vnderstande the conditionate state of this maruellous seate, and therefore giue attendance to my wordes.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • A hypothetical occurrence of this kind the theologians call a conditional future occurrence (actus liber conditionate futurus seu futuribilis).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • He believes, he says, "If the race would rise in the scale of being, they must comply with the same laws that conditionate the rise and development of other people."

    Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising 1887

  • The shade of the black poplars will conditionate the court from spring times.

    Dezeen 2010

  • Let them, then, as long as they please, continue such empty clamours, fit to terrify and shake weak and unstable men; for the truth’s sake we will not be silent: and I hope we shall very easily make it appear that the general terms that are used in this business will indeed give no colour to any argument for universal redemption, whether absolute or conditionate.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

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