cond

Adjective

conditional (not comparable)

1. Limited by a condition.
   • I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
2. Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.
   • "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
3. Expressing a condition or supposition.
   • a conditional word, mode, or tense

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Verb (1)

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
   • For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (obsolete, rare) To know; understand; acknowledge.
   • Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

Verb (2)

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (informal, transitive) To trick, lie or defraud, usually for personal gain.
   • Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals [title]2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022

   Synonyms:

   be sold a pup, abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble, dissimulate, feign

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