Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 102

Condemn (v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.

Condemn (v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.

Condemn (v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

Condemn (v. t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Condemnable () Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

Condemnation (n.) The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.

Condemnation (n.) The state of being condemned.

Condemnation (n.) The ground or reason of condemning.

Condemnatory (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

Condemned (a.) Used for condemned persons.

Condemner (n.) One who condemns or censures.

Condensability (n.) Capability of being condensed.

Condensable (a.) Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.

Condensate (v. t.) Made dense; condensed.

Condensated (imp. & p. p.) of Condensate

Condensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condensate

Condensate (v. t.) To condense.

Condensation (n.) The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

Condensation (n.) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.

Condensation (n.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.

Condensative (a.) Having the property of condensing.

Condensed (imp. & p. p.) of Condense

Condensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condense

Condense (v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

Condense (v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.

Condense (v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.

Condense (v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

Condense (v. i.) To undergo polymerization.

Condense (a.) Condensed; compact; dense.

Condenser (n.) One who, or that which, condenses.

Condenser (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.

Condenser (n.) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.

Condenser (n.) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.

Condenser (n.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

Condenser (n.) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine.

Condensible (a.) Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.

Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

Condescended (imp. & p. p.) of Condescend

Condescending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condescend

Condescend (v. i.) To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.

Condescend (v. i.) To consent.

Condescendence (n.) Alt. of Condescendency

Condescendency (n.) Condescension.

Condescendingly (adv.) In a condescending manner.

Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

Condescent (n.) An act of condescension.

Condign (a.) Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.

Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.

Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.

Condignly (adv.) According to merit.

Condignness (n.) Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

Condiment (n.) Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.

Condisciple (n.) A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.

Condite (a.) Preserved; pickled.

Condite (v. t.) To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.

Condition (n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.

Condition (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.

Condition (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.

Condition (n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.

Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.

Conditioned (imp. & p. p.) of Condition

Conditioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condition

Condition (v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.

Condition (v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Condition (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.

Condition (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

Condition (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.

Condition (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

Condition (n.) train; acclimate.

Conditional (a.) Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.

Conditional (a.) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.

Conditional (n.) A limitation.

Conditional (n.) A conditional word, mode, or proposition.

Conditionality (n.) The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

Conditionally (adv.) In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.

Conditionate (v. t.) Conditional.

Conditionate (v. t.) To qualify by conditions; to regulate.

Conditionate (v. t.) To put under conditions; to render conditional.

Conditioned (a.) Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.

Conditioned (a.) Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.

Conditionly (adv.) Conditionally.

Conditories (pl. ) of Conditory

Conditory (n.) A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

Condog (v. i.) To concur; to agree.

Condolatory (a.) Expressing condolence.

Condoled (imp. & p. p.) of Condole

Condoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condole

Condole (v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.

Condole (v. t.) To lament or grieve over.

Condolement (n.) Condolence.

Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.

Condolence (n.) Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

Condoler (n.) One who condoles.

Condonation (n.) The act of condoning or pardoning.

Condonation (n.) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated.

Condoned (imp. & p. p.) of Condone

Condoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condone

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