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Word Meanings - PRECONDITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

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  • PREVIOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • CONDITIONAL
    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 . . .
  • ANTECEDENT
    1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
  • PRELIMINARY
    Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations. Syn. -- Introductory; preparatory;
  • CONDITIONATE
    Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
  • CONDITION
    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
  • CONDITIONLY
    Conditionally.
  • ANTECEDENTLY
    Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
  • PREVIOUSLY
    Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
  • CONDITIONALLY
    In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
  • CONDITIONED
    1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak. 2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not
  • PREVIOUS
    Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
  • INCONDITIONAL
    Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
  • UNCONDITIONAL
    Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
  • UNCONDITIONED
    Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
  • PRECONDITION
    A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
  • INCONDITIONATE
    Not conditioned; not limited; absolute. Boyle.

 

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