conditional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.
Base: condition
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: conditionall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: conditionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conditionall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Limited by a condition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
gloss: Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
gloss: Expressing a condition or supposition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a conditional word, mode, or tense
gloss: A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
pos: noun
gloss: The conditional mood.
pos: noun
gloss: A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
pos: noun
examples: "A implies B" is a conditional.
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals
gloss: An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
pos: noun
examples: if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
gloss: A condition (a limitation or restriction).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
For mine own part, I confess I do not in any measure think it needful to insist upon the conditionals of these assertions of the Holy Ghost, as to the removal of any or all the oppositions that from them, of old or of late, have been raised and framed against the doctrine of the saints' perseverance, there being in neither of the texts insisted on either name or thing inquired after, nor any one of all the severals inquired into, and constantly in the Scriptures used, in the description of the saints and believers of whom we speak.
There were so many ways to answer, yet each potential response seemed out of context, inadequate. The problem with context—and any conditionals I might apply in my answer—was the high risk that Jim and Margot dismiss it all as “hedging,” as positioning myself to win the engagement.
Sanders questions this move under a model that assumes comprehensive divine foreknowledge because there aren't any conditionals; the outcome is certain: “How can a conditional promise be genuine if God already foreknows the human response and so foreknows that he will, in fact, never fulfill the promise?"
Synonyms: conditioned
in logic
limited
relative
conditional
contingent
qualified
Antonyms: absolute
categorical
unconditional
unfettered
unlimited
universal
Derived words: biconditional
conditional agreement
conditional assembly language
conditional baptism
conditional clause
conditional comment
conditional entropy
conditional fee
conditionalise
conditionalism
conditionalist
conditionality
conditionalize
conditionally
conditionalness
conditional operator
conditional perfect
conditional probability
conditional probability distribution
conditional proof
conditional sentence
conditional tense
conditional unconditional
inconditional
multiconditional
nonconditional
postconditional
pre-conditional
semiconditional
counterfactual conditional
first conditional
horseshoe conditional
indicative conditional
mixed conditional
Philonian conditional
present conditional
relevance conditional
second conditional
strict conditional
third conditional
zero conditional
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: условие
roman: uslovie
lang: Finnish
word: ehtolause
lang: Finnish
word: konditionaalilause
lang: German
word: Konditional
lang: Russian
word: усло́вие
roman: uslóvije