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Predicate   /prˈɛdəkˌeɪt/  /prˈɛdɪkət/   Listen
Predicate

verb
(past & past part. predicated; pres. part. predicating)
1.
Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.
2.
Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.  Synonym: proclaim.
3.
Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.  Synonym: connote.



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"Predicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... is limited to the Passive Voice."—P. 131. Afterwards, in spite of the fancied limitation, he acknowledges the passive use of the participle in ing, and that there is "authority" for it; but, at the same time, most absurdly supposes the word to predicate "action," and also to be wrong: saying, "Action is sometimes predicated of a passive subject. EXAMPLE—'The house is building,.. for.. 'The house is being built,'.. which means.. The house is becoming built." On this, he remarks thus: "This is one of ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... Heroism," and as she sought among the dusky annals of the past for instances in confirmation of her predicate, that female intellect was capable of the most exalted attainments, and that the elements of her character would enable woman to cope successfully with difficulties of every class, her voice grew clear, firm, and deep. Quitting ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans
... to me, is the immortality we so glibly predicate of departed artists. If they survive at all, it is but a shadowy life they live, moving on through the gradations of slow decay to distant but inevitable death. They can no longer, as heretofore, speak directly to the hearts of their fellow-men, ...
— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler
... yellowness is only some sensation of yellow raised to the cognitive power and employed as the symbol for its own specific essence. It is consequently capable of entering as a term into rational discourse and of becoming the subject or predicate of propositions eternally valid. A thing, on the contrary, is discovered only when the order and grouping of such recurring essences can be observed, and when various themes and strains of experience are woven together into elaborate progressive harmonies. When consciousness first becomes cognitive ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana


Words linked to "Predicate" :   proclaim, connote, predication, logic, verb phrase, assert, interrelate, asseverate, predicate calculus, maintain, relate, imply, predicative, phrase, predicator, term


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