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Predicable   Listen
noun
Predicable  n.  
1.
Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
2.
(Logic) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Predicable" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was discerned that Indra was an effect, not the cause. It was discerned also that that cause was not predicable of the gods who, in their undulance and fluidity, suggested ceaseless transformations and ...
— The Lords of the Ghostland - A History of the Ideal • Edgar Saltus

... I may so phrase it, a double-barrelled illusion. Getting Married has not the unity of the Greek drama, and the Greek drama has not the unity of Getting Married. Whatever "unity" is predicable of either form of art is a wholly different thing from whatever "unity" is predicable of the other. Mr. Shaw, in fact, is, consciously or unconsciously, playing with words, very much as Lamb did when he said to the sportsman, "Is that your own hare or a wig?" There are, roughly speaking, ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer



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