different between condition vs dupery

English

Etymology

From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?nd?sh??n, IPA^(key): /k?n?d???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)

1. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
2. A requirement or requisite.

3. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
4. The health status of a medical patient.

   Synonym: fettle

5. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
6. The state or quality.
7. A particular state of being.

8. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• conditional
• precondition

Related terms

• condition subsequent
• in condition
• statement of condition

Translations

Verb

condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)

1. To subject to the process of acclimation.

2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
4. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
6. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
7. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
8. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

9. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.

10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Derived terms

• air-condition
• conditioner
• precondition
• recondition

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French condition, from Old French condicion, Borrowed from Latin condici?, condici?nis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.di.sj??/

Noun

condition f (plural conditions)

1. term, condition
2. condition, state

   en bonne condition - In good condition

3. social status, walk of life

   Le couple se contentait de soirées entre amis de conditions diverses. — The couple was content with partying with friends from all walks of life.

Derived terms

• à condition que
• à condition de
• condition suffisante
• conditionnel
• conditions de vie

Further reading

• “condition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French condicion, from Latin condicio

Noun

condition f (plural conditions)

1. condition (state, quality)

Descendants

• French: condition

English

Etymology

dupe +? -ery

Noun

dupery (countable and uncountable, plural duperies)

1. The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.
   • 1930, "Dishonesty,"Time, 17 Feb,

     Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire.

   • 2003, Joseph P. Fried, "The Duke of Dupery, Still Pulling the Wool," New York Times, 21 Dec, p. N51

     Mr. Abel, who lives in Westport, Conn., has earned his bread as a writer and lecturer on problem-solving tactics, and he has earned a reputation as a duke of dupery since 1959, when he masterminded the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.

Synonyms

• deception
• trickery

Related terms

• dupe

References

• dupery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “dupery” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• Duprey