conditioning house (kondishoninghous)

A trade establishment where silk is tested. Simmonds. See condition, v. t., 5. conditionlyt (kon-dish'on-li), adv. [ And though she give but thus cond it i only . Sir P. Sidney, Astrophel and Stella. conditio sine qua non (kon-dish'i-ō si'ne kwä non). [L., a condition without which not...: see condition, sine3, qua, and non.] A nece ary or indispensable condition. See condition, n., 5. conditory (kon'di-to-ri), n.; pl. cond i tories (-riz). [ for storing or keeping things. [Rare] conditourt, n. [ME., [And then they hadde] a goode cond it our that sette light by theire enmyes, for hem semed [that they were in nombre eue]n as many for as many. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 392.