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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Condition \Con*di"tion\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Conditioned}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Conditioning}.]
     1. To make terms; to stipulate.
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              Pay me back my credit,


              And I'll condition with ye.           --Beau. & Fl.
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     2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or
        conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged
        to be impossible.
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              To think of a thing is to condition.  --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  conditioning \conditioning\ n.
     a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes
     dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment.
     See {conditioned response}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conditioning
       n : a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes
           dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its
           environment

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "conditioning":
     Pavlovian conditioning, absorption and regurgitation, acclimation,
     acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaptation, adaption,
     addictive, adjustment, apprenticeship, automatic writing,
     automatism, basic training, behavior, blind impulse, brainwashing,
     breaking, breaking-in, breeding, case hardening, catechization,
     compulsiveness, conditioned response, cultivation, development,
     dictation, discipline, domestication, drill, drilling, echolalia,
     echopraxia, enablement, equipment, exercise, familiarization,
     fetching-up, fit, fitting, fostering, furnishing, grooming,
     habit-forming, habituating, habituation, hard, hardening,
     housebreaking, imbuement, implantation, impregnation, impression,
     improvement, impulse, in-service training, inculcation,
     indoctrination, infixation, infixion, infusion, inoculation,
     instillation, instillment, instinct, instinctiveness,
     instrumental conditioning, inurement, involuntariness,
     manual training, military training, naturalization,
     negative reinforcement, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training,
     operant conditioning, orientation, physiologically addictive,
     positive reinforcement, practice, preparation, psychagogy,
     psychologically addictive, qualification, raising, readying,
     rearing, reeducation, reflex, reflex action, rehearsal,
     reindoctrination, reinforcement, reorientation, seasoning,
     sheer chemistry, sloyd, taming, training, tuning,
     unconditioned reflex, unwilledness, upbringing,
     vocational education, vocational training
  
  

















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