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Con*done" (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Condoned (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Condoning.] [L. condonare, -
donatum, to give up, remit, forgive; con- +
donare to give. See Donate.] 1.
To pardon; to forgive.

A fraud which he had either concocted or
condoned.

W. Black.

It would have been magnanimous in the men then in
power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning
the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns.

J. C. Shairp.

2. (Law) To pardon; to overlook
the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage
law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.

Con"dor (?), n. [Sp. condor,
fr. Peruvian cuntur.] (Zoöl.) A very
large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus),
found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.

||Con`dot*tie"re (?), n.;
pl. Condottieri (#). [It., captain.]
A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to
any party in any contest.


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