conditional

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/kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/

adjective · noun

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Macedonian has four verbal moods: indicative, conditional, imperative, and renarrative.
The position is conditional on how well you are able to perform.

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A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.

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The student submitted a paper to an English-language journal, and the result was "conditional acceptance".
"A implies B" is a conditional statement.
I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.

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Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
1753, William Warburton, The Character and Conduct of the Messengers
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals
1867, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Manual of Elementary Logic, quoted in OED
The former is called the law, which hath his promises, conditionals, and comminations or threats, accordingly; the other is called the gospel, or rather the free promises hanging not on conditions on our behalf, but simply on God's verity and mercy, although they require conditions, but not as hanging thereon; of which promises the gospel may well be called a publication.
1832, John Bradford, Memoirs of the Life and Martyrdom of John Bradford, page 69
GOD grant us to be clean beasts, to cleave the hoofs accordingly, that is, to give the old man meat, meet for the owers, that is, the law with his appurtenances, conditionals, promises, and comminations; and to give to the new man the gospel and sweet free promises, as appertaineth; and then doubtless we shall walk in the right high-way unto eternal life, that is, in Christ Jesus, the end of the law and the fulfilling of the promises, in whome they be yea and Amen.
1837, The Letters of the Martyrs: Collected and Published in 1564, page 363

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From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.