transitive. To exert a defining or controlling influence over (an action, process, or course of events); to dictate or determine (an outcome…

transitive. To fix or decide causally; to condition as a cause or antecedent.

(with simple object) To make (a thing) what it is; to give its being to, form, determine.

To be the (precedent) condition of, to determine as a condition the existence of. passive. To depend upon as its condition, to be conditional on.