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Condition :: Condition (n.) 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 a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Won''t :: Won't () A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.

Confederate :: Confederate (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

Can''t :: Can't () A colloquial contraction for can not.

Compact :: Compact (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

Put :: Put () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth..

Betrothal :: Betrothal (n.) The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance..

Preengage :: Preengage (v. t.) To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.

Synedral :: Synecphonesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

I''d :: I'd () A contraction from I would or I had.

Synizesis :: Syngraph (n.) A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

Stipule :: Stipulator (n.) One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants..

Bipartite :: Bipartite (a.) Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty..

Nudum Pactum :: Nudum pactum () A bare, naked contract, without any consideration..

Rounding :: Rounding (n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11..

Strictured :: Stricture (n.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic..

Syncopation :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die..

Intake :: Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.

Arctation :: Arctation (n.) Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation..

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