stipulate
verb (used without object)
to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed byfor ).
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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"Your future husband seems very exacting: he has been stipulating for all sorts of things," said her mother to her.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy