cond
Clipping of conditional.
Adjective
- Clipping of conditional.
Origin
Clipping.
Verb
- Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”).
- Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is...
Origin
From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.