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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[F.

condigne

, L.

condignus

very worthy;

con-

dignus

worthy. See

, and cf.

Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.

[Obs.]

Condign

and worthy praise.

Udall.

Herself of all that rule she deemend most

condign

Spenser.

Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.

“Condign censure.”

Milman.

Unless it were a bloody murderer . . .
I never gave them

condign

punishment.

Shakespeare

Adj.

[L., worthy. See Dignity.]

Deserved; merited; suitable; applied usually to punishment; as, the malefactor has suffered condign punishment.

Worthy; merited; as condign praise.

[In the latter sense, seldom used.]