See Also: condition(2)(dictionary)
Condition(health)
condition(medicine)
condition(1)(dictionary)
Condition, Sever(health)
Intersex condition(health)
Terminal Condition(health)
SUBPENSIVE CONDITION(law)
condition 1, noun(dictionary)
condition 2, verb(dictionary)

Pausanias (sh) and condition(1) (iou)


Pausanias (sh)




flourished AD 143-176

Greek traveler and geographer.

His Description of Greece is an invaluable guide to ancient ruins. He describes the religious Art and architecture of Olympia and Delphi, the pictures and inscriptions at Athens, the statue of Athena on the Acropolis, and (outside the city) the monuments of famous men and of Athenians fallen in battle. According to James George Frazer, without Pausanias the ruins of Greece would be "a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer."


condition(1) (iou)



condition noun. ME.
[Old French condicion (mod. condition) from Latin condicio(n-) agreement, situation, etc., rel. to condicere agree upon, promise, formed as CON- + dicere declare, say: see -ION.]
I. A convention, proviso, etc.
A thing demanded or required as a prerequisite to the granting or performance of something else; a stipulation. ME.
on condition that with the condition that, provided that. POTESTATIVE condition. resolutive condition: see RESOLUTIVE 2.
Milton Wilt thou enjoy the good, Then cavil the conditions? G. F. Kennan A list of twenty-one conditions on which..Communist groups..would be admitted to the Third International.
b. ellipt. As conjunction = on condition that below. Only in E17.
Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida Condition I had gone barefoot to India.
A thing on whose existence or fulfilment that of another depends; a prerequisite. In pl., circumstances, esp. those necessary for a thing's existence. ME.
G. J. Romanes Environment..or the sum total of the external conditions of life. G. Murray It is..a necessary condition of social living, that we are individuals as well as members of a social whole.
A restriction, a qualification, a limitation. LME-M19.
J. Bramhall We are absolutely without condition glad of our own liberty.
An agreement; a covenant, a treaty. L15-E18.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice If you repay me not..such sum or sums as are Express'd in the condition.
A provision in a will, contract, etc., on which the legal force or effect of the document depends. L16.
conditions of sale the provisions under which a sale by auction takes place.
Grammar. A conditional clause. M19.
A subject, course, etc., in which a student must pass an examination within a stated time to maintain provisionally granted status. US. M19.
II. State, mode of being.
A particular mode of being of a person or thing; a state; circumstances of wealth; social position. ME.
change one's condition (now arch. & dial.) get married. in a certain condition, in a delicate condition, in an interesting condition euphem. pregnant. in condition in good condition; physically fit. in no condition certainly not fit enough to do. mint condition: see MINT noun1. out of condition in bad, condition; physically unfit. race condition: see RACE noun1 3c. spheroidal condition: see SPHEROIDAL 2.
W. H. Prescott In the middle classes; and even in those of humbler condition. M. Esslin The act of waiting as an essential and characteristic aspect of the human condition.
b. spec. A state resulting from a physical or mental illness; sickness, a malady. E20.
T. S. Eliot The condition is curable.
Mental disposition; moral Nature; temper. In pl., personal qualities; ways, morals; behaviour. LME-M19.
Bible (AV): 2 Maccabees 15:12 A good man,..gentle in condition, well spoken also. Sir W. Scott Miss Bell Fergusson, a woman of the most excellent conditions.
Nature, character, quality; a characteristic, an attribute. LME-E18.
A. Day A man shaped as you see, and as bold in condition as he appeareth in shew. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona Here is the cate-log..of her condition..She can fetch and carry...She can milk.
Comb.: condition-powder a medicinal powder to keep an animal in condition.