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condition be precedent or fubfequent, as whether com- 
penfarion can be made, i Vera. 167. 
CONDITIONAL, adj. By way of ftipulation 5 not 
abfolute; made with limitations; granted on particular 
terms.—Many fcviptures, though as to their formal terms 
they are abfolute, yet as to their fenfe they are conditional. 
South. 
This dri6l neceflity they fimple call; 
Another fort there is conditional. Dry den. 
In grammar and logic. Exprcffing fome condition or 
fuppofition. 
CONDITIONAL,/. A limitation. A word not no w in 
ufe. — He faid, if he was lure that young man were king 
Edward’s Ion, he would never bear arms again!! him. This 
cafe feents hard, both in refpeft of the conditional, and in 
refpedl of the other words. Bacon. 
CONDITIONA'LITY,/. The quality of being con¬ 
ditional; limitation by certain terms.—And as this clear 
propofal of the promifes may infpirit our endeavours, fo 
is the conditionality molt efficacious to neceffitate and en¬ 
gage them. Decay of Piety. 
CONDITIONALLY, ad<v. With certain limitations ; 
on particular terms ; on certain dipulations.—A falfe ap- 
prehenlion underftands that pofitively, which was but 
conditionally exprefied. Brown. 
I here entail 
The crown to thee, and to thine heirs for ever; 
Conditionally, that here thou take an oath 
To ceafe tins civil war. Shakefpeare. 
CONDTTIONARY, adj. Stipulated.—Would God in 
mercy difpenfe with it as a conditionary, yet we could not 
be happy without it, as a natural qualification for heaven. 
Norris. 
To CONDI'TIONATE, <v. a. To qualify; to regulate, 
—That ivy arifetli but where it may be fupported, we 
cannot aferibe the fame into any fcience therein, which 
fufpends and condiiionates its eruption. Brown. 
CONDI'TIONATE, adj. Eftabliflted on certain terms 
or conditions.—That which is miltaken to be particular 
and abfolute, duly underllood, is general, but conditionate ; 
and belongs to none who lhall not perform the condition. 
Hatnmond. 
CONDI'TIONED, adj. Having qualities or properties 
good or bad : 
The deareft friend to me, the kindell man, 
The be!! condition'd. Shakefpeare. 
CONDIVIC'NUM, anciently the capital of the Nam- 
netes, in Armorica: now Nantes, on the Loire, from its 
name Ciuitas Namnetum. 
To CONDO'LE, <v. n. \_condoleo, Lat.] To lament with 
thofe that are in misfortune ; to exprefs concern for the 
miferies of others. It has with before the perfon for whofe 
misfortune we profefs grief. It is oppoled to congratulate. 
—I congratulate with the beads upon this honour done to 
their king; and mud condole with us poor mortals, who 
are rendered incapable of paying our refpefls. Addifon. 
To CONDO'LE, <v. a. To bewail with another.—Why 
fhould our poet petition Ifis for her fafe delivery, and af¬ 
terwards condole her mifearriage ? Dryden. 
CONDO'LEMENT,/ Grief; forrow; mourning: 
To perfevere 
In obdinate condolement, is a courfe 
Of impious dubbornnefs, unmanly grief. Shakefpeare. 
CONDO'LENCE,/. [condolance, Fr.] The expreffion of 
grief for the forrows of another; the civilities and mef- 
lages of friends upon any lofs or misfortune.—The reader 
will excufe this digreffion, due by way of condolence to my 
worthy brethren. Arbuthnot. 
CONDO'LER,/ One that joins in lamentation for the 
-misfortunes of another. 
CON'DOM, a town of France, and principal place of a 
Tutrird, in the department of the Gers; before the revo- 
C O N 
Union, the fee of a bidiop, fuffragan of Bourdeaux; the 
number of inhabitants is about five thoufand, but is nei¬ 
ther rich nor commercial: feven leagues north-north-wed 
of Audi, and fix fouth Youth-weft of Agen. Lat. 53.48.N. 
Ion. 1S. 2. E. Ferro. 
CONDOMOI'S, before the revolution, a country of 
France, of which Condom was the capital. 
CONDON A'T ION,/ [condonalio, Lat.] A pardoning; 
a forgiving. 
CON'DOR, in ornithology. See Vultur-. 
CONDORCET' (Jean-Antoine Nicolas Oaritat, mar¬ 
quis de), member of the inditute of Bologna, of the aca¬ 
demies of Turin, Berlin, Stockholm, Upfai, Philadelphia, 
Peteifburg, Padua, See. and fecretary of the Paris academy 
of lcienccs, was born at Ribemont, in Piordie, the 17th 
of September, t 743 > of a very ancient and noble family. 
His early attachment to the fciences, and progrefs in 
them, foon rendered him a confpicuous charafttr in the 
commonwealth of letters. He was received as a member 
of the French academy at twenty-five years of age, name¬ 
ly, in March 1769, as adjun< 5 t-mecanician ; afterwards, 
he became afibciate in 1770, adj un6l-fecretary in 1773, 
anil foie fecretary foon after, which he enjoyed till his 
death, or till the diilolution of the academy by the con¬ 
vention. His biographer, LaLande, appears to have drawn 
his charafter in very correft and impartial colours. At 
the age of fifteen he was lent to lludy philofophy at the- 
college of Navarre, and had the good fortune to fall into 
the hands of an able profefior, who has iince didinguifhed 
himfelf by his geometrical works. The young Condorcet 
had no relidi for the bufinefs of the fird courfe, for the- 
quibbles of ontology and pneumatology, and all the 
wretched appendages of fchool metaphyiics: but, in the 
following year, his dudies, being direCled to the mathe¬ 
matical and phyfical fciences, were entirely congenial to 
his tade ; and though there were upwards of one hundred 
and twenty fcholars, he didinguifhed himfelf above them 
all. At Eader he held a public thefts, at which Clairaut, 
D’Alembert, and Fontaine, afiilted. He now returned 
home, but continued to cultivate geometry. To enjoy 
more opportuities of improvement, he removed, in \ 762, 
to Paris; where he attended the chemical courfe of Mac- 
quer and Beaume, and frequented the literary focieties 
which D’Alembert had formed at the houfe of mademoi- 
felle de Lefpinafle. In 4765, when only twenty-two years 
old, he pubiifhed a work on the Integral Calculus, which 
difeovered vaft extent and originality of views. Condorcet 
was already numbered with the foremod mathematicians 
in Europe. “ There were not (fays La Lnnde) above ten 
of that clafs; one at Peterlburg, one at Berlin, one at 
Bafle, one at Milan, and five or fix at Paris; England, 
which had fet fuch an illultiious example, no longer pro¬ 
duced a fingle geometer that could rank with the former.” 
This is a bold afiertion and wholly unfounded, inafmuch 
as it was impoffible for La Lande to know the fa 61 . 
In 1767, Condorcet pubiiffied his Solution of the Pro¬ 
blem of Three Bodies; and, in the following year, the 
fird part of his Analytical EfTays; in which he entered 
very profoundly into thofe arduous queffions. He was 
now received into the French academy, and enriched 
their annual volumes with memoirs on infinite feries, on 
partial and finite differences, on equations of condition, 
and on other obje6fs of importance in the higher calculus. 
It mud be regretted, that he indulged fpeculation, per¬ 
haps, to excels; the methods that he propofes for inte¬ 
gration are fometimes of a nature fo extremely general, 
as to refufe to be accommodated to pra 61 ice. Prolecuting 
thofe relearches /or feveral years, he compofed an ample 
treatife on the Integral Calculus, in five parts, comprifing 
the dofhines and their application. It was afterward co¬ 
pied cut for the prefs, in 1785, by Keralio, formerly go_- 
vernor to the infant of Parma. Only one hundred and 
twenty-eight pages were printed, but the manufeript dill 
exids ; as does that of an Elementary Treatife on Arith¬ 
metic, and will probably be given to the public. His 
attention 
