Definition of Predicate

  • (v. t.) To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
  • (v. t.) To found; to base.
  • (v. i.) To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
  • (v. t.) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, \"Paper is white,\" \"Ink is not white,\" whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
  • (v. t.) The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
  • (a.) Predicated.

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