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predicate(2)(dictionary)
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predicate 1, noun(dictionary)
predicate 2, verb(dictionary)

predicate(2) (iou)



predicate verb. M16.
[Latin praedicat- pa. ppl stem of praedicare declare, (in medieval Latin) predicate, from prae PRE- + dicare make known, rel. to dicere say: see -ATE3.]
I.
a. verb trans. Declare or affirm as true or existent; postulate, assume. Also (now rare or obsolete) preach; extol, commend. M16.
Blackwood's Magazine Composing discourses, which..might not have been unprofitably predicated from the pulpit. Nature The Pleistocene colonisation of Tasmania has long been predicated. F. Weldon Who is there to punish us? Unless..we predicate some natural law of male dominance.
b. verb intrans. Make an assertion. E19.
G. A. Sala It is perilous to predicate dogmatically as to the locality.
verb trans.
a. Logic. Assert (something) about the subject of a proposition; make (a term) the predicate in a proposition. L16.
F. Bowen Whatever is predicated..universally of any Class..may also be predicated of any part of that Class.
b. Affirm as a quality or attribute of something. E17.
E. Waugh Humour and compassion are the qualities..predicated of him.
verb trans. Foll. by on: affirm or postulate on the basis of; base or found on. Usu. in pass. Orig. US. M18.
L. Appignanesi A set of values which were predicated on a rejection of all previous assumptions. C. Brayfield The other great families..did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house.
II.
verb trans. [By confusion.] Predict. E17.
W. H. Dixon That shrewd Venetian envoy heard enough to predicate the rising of domestic storms.