prædicate

A form of predicate — The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

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Meanings

nounprædicate (plural prædicates)

plural prædicates

  1. archaicArchaic form of predicate.

    By help of such probable reasoning we are enabled to make syllogisms out of propositions with the sign “most” or “many,” instead of “all” or “some;” and we can take into account the force of such words as “probably,” without (as in strict Logic) thrusting them into the subject or prædicate.

    1875, Alfred James Swinbourne, chapter 22, in Picture Logic, 2nd edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 142
verbprædicate (third-person singular simple present prædicates, present participle prædicating, simple past and past participle prædicated)

present singular third person prædicates · participle present prædicating · participle past prædicated · past prædicated

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of predicate.
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