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  1. An if clause, if clause representing a condition; a protasis introduced by if.
    • 1709, Susannah Centlivre, The Busy Body, Act III, in John Bell (ed.), British Theater, J. Bell (1791), http://books.google.com/books?id=qYY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=ifs page 59,
    • :Sir Fran. Nay, but Chargy, if""" ¶ Miran. Nay, Gardy, no Ifs.""Have I refus'd three northern lords, two British peers, and half a score knights, to have put in your Ifs?
    • 1791 January, "RichardÅ¿on"s Chemical Principles of the Metallic Arts", in The Monthly Review, R. Griffiths, http://books.google.com/books?id=F24xcadl9JMC&pg=PA176&dq=ifs page 176,
    • :Well might Bergman add, (in his Scicgraphia,), "<span style="font-variant:small-caps">if</small> the compariÅ¿on that has been made, &amp;c. be juÅ¿t." The preÅ¿ent writer makes no ifs about the matter, and has Å¿uperadded a little inaccuracy of his own, "
Translations: 
  • Spanish: hipótesis , suposición
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Etymology: gif, Äif.

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