Conditional /(?)/

Con·di·tion·al

Conditional

a.
  1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
    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. Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. (Gram. & Logic)
    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.

Conditional

n.
  1. A limitation. [Obs.]
  2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
    Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.