condition (1 and 6 are the commonest senses)
1.
provision, stipulation (freq.); phrase “on condition (that)”
1H6 V. iii. 152,
shortened to “condition”
Troil. I. ii. 78
“Condition, I had gone
bare-foot to India.”
2.
covenant, contract
Tp. I. ii. 117, 120,
Mer.V. I. iii. 149
“such . . . sums as are
Express'd in the condition,”
All'sW. IV. ii. 30,
1H6 V. iv. 165.
3.
mode or state of
being AYL. I. ii. 16,
Cæs. II. i. 236
“Your weak
condition”
(= constitution), Oth. I. ii.
26, II. iii. 304.
4.
social or official
position, rank
Tp. III. i. 59
“I am in my condition A
prince,”
2H4 IV. iii. 90, H5 IV. iii. 63, 2H6 V. i. 64.
5.
mental disposition,
temper, character
LLL. V. ii. 20
“A light in a beauty
dark,”
Mer.V. I. ii. 141
“the condition of a
saint,”
H8 I. ii. 19, Cor. II. iii. 102, Tim. IV. iii. 140.
6.
characteristic,
property, quality Gent. III. i.
275,
Ado III. ii. 68
“his ill
conditions,”
AYL. I. i. 48,
Shr. V. ii. 168
“soft
conditions,”
H5 IV. i. 110.
