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.