predicate

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predicate

▶noun /ˈprɛdɪkət/ 

• 1 Grammar the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g. went home in John went home).

• 2 Logic something which is affirmed or denied concerning an argument of a proposition.

▶verb /ˈprɛdɪkeɪt/ 

• 1 Grammar & Logic state, affirm, or assert (something) about the subject of a sentence or an argument of a proposition.

  ■ declare or assert as true or existing.

• 2 (predicate something on/upon) found or base something on.

– derivatives
predication noun.

– origin ME: from L. praedicatum ‘something declared’, neut. of praedicatus, from praedicare, from prae ‘beforehand’ + dicare ‘make known’.