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/prˈɛdəkˌeɪt/ /prˈɛdɪkət/ Listen

noun

Predicate n.

(Logic) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.

(Gram.) The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.

Synonyms: Affirmation; declaration.

verb

Predicate v. t. (past & past part. predicated; pres. part. predicating)

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

To found; to base. (U.S.) Note: Predicate is sometimes used in the United States for found or base; as, to predicate an argument on certain principles; to predicate a statement on information received. Predicate is a term in logic, and used only in a single case, namely, when we affirm one thing of another. "Similitude is not predicated of essences or substances, but of figures and qualities only."

Predicate v. i. To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.

adjective

Predicate adj. Predicated.

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Etymology of 'Predicate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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