The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.
1. A condition or state. 2. Restoration to a normal condition or a normal place.
The exordium, or narrative part of the orator's speech, in which be unfolds the matter in question; the constitution of a thing.
The constitution, state, condition, &c. of any thing.- Hippocrates. Also, the reduction of a bone. See Constitution, and Habit of Body.