stipulate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To lay down as a condition of an agreement; require by contract.
2. v. To specify or arrange in an agreement: stipulate a date of payment and a price.
3. v. To guarantee or promise (something) in an agreement.
4. v. To make an express demand or provision in an agreement.
5. v. To form an agreement.
6. adj. Having stipules.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To arrange or settle definitely, or by special mention and agreement, or as a special condition: as, it is stipulated that A shall pay 5 per cent.
2. As commonly used in law, damages liquidated by a stipulation—that is, a sum fixed by a contract or obligation in such manuer as to be the sum payable in case of breach, without any further question as to the amount of the actual damages.
3. In botany, having stipules: as, a stipulate stalk or leaf.

Wiktionary

1. v. To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
2. v. To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
3. v. To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
4. adj. botany Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. (Bot.) Furnished with stipules.
2. v. To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force
2. v. specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
3. v. give a guarantee or promise of