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Predicate

noun

1.

(logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula.

2.

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements. Synonym: verb phrase.

verb

(past & past part. predicated; pres. part. predicating)

1.

Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.

2.

Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of. Synonym: proclaim.

3.

Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic. Synonym: connote.

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... which is to be observed in both. When the active consciousness is stilled by slumber, subconsciousness or ganglionic consciousness remains awake, and sometimes makes itself evident in dreams. I have repeatedly observed my terrier when under dream influence, and have been able to predicate the substance of his dreams from his actions. Like man, the dog is sometimes unable to differentiate between his waking and dreaming thoughts; he confounds the one with the other, and follows out in his waking state the ideas suggested ...

— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

... assuming an original continuity between the North and South Frisian areas may readily be admitted. There are, of course, reasonable objections against it—the want of proof of Frisian character of the language of Ditmarsh being the chief. Still, the principle which would lead us to predicate of Suffolk what we had previously predicated of Norfolk and Essex, induces us to do the same with the district in question, and to argue that if Eydersted, to the North, and the parts between Bremen and Cuxhaven, to the South, ...

— The Ethnology of the British Islands • Robert Gordon Latham

... assumed as true of white men must be proven beyond peradventure if it relates to Negroes. One who writes of the development of the Negro race must continually insist that he is writing of a normal human stock, and that whatever it is fair to predicate of the mass of human beings may be predicated of the Negro. It is the silent refusal to do this which has led to so much false writing on Africa and of its inhabitants. Take, for instance, the answer to the apparently ...

— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois

... some time, moreover, in trying to bring within the four corners of his definition some uses of the terms of beauty, which are really only applied to objects by way of analogy, and are not meant to predicate the beautiful in ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... army came in she would step up to one of her charts and, placing a finger on a point, she would say: "Here is General ——'s detachment; here is the rebel army; such and such are the fortifications and surrounding circumstances; and she would then begin thoughtfully to predicate the result and suggest the ...

— A Military Genius - Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland • Sarah Ellen Blackwell

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