Word Meanings - SWAINSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition of a swain.

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• SWAINLING
  A little swain.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• CONDITIONAL
  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 . . .
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• SWAINMOTE
  A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders,
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• SWAINSHIP
  The condition of a swain.
• SWAIN
  1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• SWAINISH
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.
• CONDITIONED
  1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak. 2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• BOATSWAIN
  An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. The jager gull. The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain.
• COCKSWAIN
  The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
• PRECONDITION
  A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
• INCONDITIONATE
  Not conditioned; not limited; absolute. Boyle.
• COXSWAIN
  See COCKSWAIN
• DAGSWAIN
  Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.