Meanings
adjectiveprædicative (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of predicative.
The I-E. Adjective and Substantive were once probably identical; and the former was differentiated from the latter by its gradual appropriation to the discharge of prædicative and attributive functions.
1886, Thomas le Marchant Douse, An Introduction, Phonological, Morphological, Syntactic to the Gothic of Ulfilas, Taylor and Francis, page 138
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