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noun
- 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, "Richardſon"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 compariſon that has been made, &c. be juſt." The preſent writer makes no ifs about the matter, and has ſuperadded a little inaccuracy of his own, "
Translations: - Spanish: hipótesis , suposición
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Etymology: gif, Äif.
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