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| Conditional (Con*di"tion*al) (?), a. [L. conditionalis.] 1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. "Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared." Bp. Warburton. 2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. "A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another." Whately. "The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously." J. S. Mill. Conditional (Con*di"tion*al), n. 1. A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition. "Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals." L. H. Atwater. |
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