Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be
made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional
punishment annexed and declared. --Bp.
Warburton.
2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as,
a conditional word, mode, or tense.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the
dependence of one categorical proposition on
another. --Whately.
The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
used synonymously. --J. S. Mill.
2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. --L.
H. Atwater.