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The property represented by these notes must eventual- 
ly pay all the loans predicated upon It. 
predicable 
Predicables of the pure understanding, in the Kan- 
tian terminology, pure but derivative concepts of the un- 
derstanding, llarper't Mag., LXXX. 464. 
predicament (prf-dik'a-meut), . [< OF. pre- predicate (pred'i-kt). a. and M. [= F. pretli- 
dicament, also prediqttement, F. predicament = Mt _ Sp _ {> predieado = It. predicato = D. 
Sp. Pg. It. predicamento, < LL. pradicameutum, predikaat = O. pradicat, prtidikat = Sw. Dan. 
that which is predicated, a predicament, cate- ' 
gory, ML. also a preaching, discourse, < L. 
prxdieare, declare, proclaim, predicate: see 
predicate. Cf. preachment, from the same ult. 
source.] 1. That which is predicated ; specifi- 
A predicament is nothing elles in Englishe but a shewyng 
or rehearsyng what wordes male be truely ioyned together, 
or els a settyng foorth of the nature of euery thing, and 
also shewyng what male be truely spoken and what not. 
', Kule of Reason. 
predikat, < L. prtedicatus, pp., declared (neut. 
LL. prsedicatiim, a predicato): see the verb.] 
I. a. Predicated; belonging to a predicate; 
constituting a part of what is predicated or 
- . , asserted of anything; made, through the in- 
cally, in the Aristotelian philos., one of the ten strumentality of a verb, to qualify its subject, 
categories. See category, 1. or sometimes its direct object: thus, in the 
following sentences the italicized words are 
predicate: he is an invalid; he is ill; it made 
nim ill; they elected him captain. 
II. . 1. That which is predicated or said 
of a subject in a proposition; in gram., the word 
or words in a proposition which express what 
is affirmed or denied of the subject; that part 
of the sentence which is not the subject. See 
propotition. 
For predicates qualities are not mere patterns on the 
web of a subject; they are the threads of that web. 
0. II. Leires, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. UL I 25. 
ut fetch up the Rear, being con- 
tented to be the inflrma [trie] species, the lowest in the 
Predicament of your Friends. Ilovxll, Letters, I. 1. 13. 
Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent 
To keep in compass of thy predicament. 
Then quick about thy purposed business come. 
Mi/i:ni. Vacation Exercise, 1. 66. 
3. A dangerous or trying situation; an unpleas- 
ant position. 
2. A definite class, state, or condition. 
Wee should apparauntly perceiue that we, beyng called 
reasonable creatures, and in that predicament compared 
and ioyned wyth angelles, bee more worthy to be nuncu- 
pate and dented persoues vureasonable. 
Hall, Edw. IV., an. 23. 
If you have gained such a Place among the choicest 
Friends of mine, 1 hope you will put me somewhere 
amongst yours, though 1 bu 
2. A class name ; a title by which a person or 
thing may be known, in virtue of belonging to 
a class. 
The noble author, head, I am given to understand, un- 
der the predicate of Aghrlrn, of the eldest branch of the 
once princely house of Imauey. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 64. 
The offender's life lies in the mercy 
Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice. 
In which predicament. I say, thou stand'st. 
Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 357. 
Ood help good fellows when they cannot help themselves ! 
slender relief in the predicament of privations ami feigned 
habits. (i. Harvey, Four Letters. 
Syu. 3. Position, plight, case. 
predicamental (pre-dik-a-men'tal), a 
predicamental, C ML. pnedicamentalis (John 
of Salisbury), < LL. prsedicainentum, predica- 
ment: see predicament.] Of or pertaining to 
predicaments. 
Old Cybele, the first in all 
This human predicamental scale. 
J. Hall, Poems (164C), p. 23. 
Predicamental quantity, quantity properly so called ; 
quantity in the sense in which it is one of the ten predic- 
aments or categories: opposed to intensive quantity. 
Predicamental relates, things named by relative terms, 
so that one has to be connoted in order completely to 
name the other: opposed to transceiulental relates, which 
are so by their mode of being. 
predicant (pred'i-kant). . and n. [< GW.preM- 
cant, F. predicant"= Sp. It. predicante, < L. 
prxdican(t-)s, ppr. of prtedicare, declare, pro- 
Adverbial predicate, a word (adjective) that divides its 
qualifying force between a verb and its subject, or has the 
value partly of an adverb and partly of a predicate : as, 
he stands Jinn ; they came running. First predicate 
[ prsedicatutn primo], a specific character belonging to the 
whole species, but not to the genus. Objective predi- 
cate, a noun or an adjective made through a verb to quali- 
fy the object of the verb : as, she culled him her deliverer; 
they foil ml them sleeping. Sometimes, less properly, called 
factitive object. Quantification of the predicate. See 
Q quantification. 
predication (pred-i-ka'shon), . [< ME. pre- 
dicacioun, < OF. predication, F. predication = 
Pr. predicatio = Sp. i>redicacion = It. predica- 
:iimc, < L. prsedicalio(n-), a declaration, a proc- 
lamation, publication, < prxdicare, pp. prxdi- 
catus, proclaim, declare: see predicate.] If. 
The act of proclaiming publicly or preaching; 
hence, a sermon ; a religious discourse. 
If ye lakke cure predicacioun, 
Thanne goth the world al to destruccioun. 
Chaucer, Summoncr's Talc, 1. 401. 
The day before were made many predications and ser- 
mons, and the last was in the church of S. lohn Baptist. 
HaHuyt's Voyages, II. 78. 
In the wonted predication of his own vcrtuea, he goes 
on to tell us that to Conquer he never dcsir'd, but onely 
to restore the Laws and Liberties of his people. 
Milton, Elkonoklastes, xix. 
predictive 
tus, declare: see predicate.] Predicating; af- 
firming; asserting; expressing affirmation or 
predication : as, a predicative term. Predicative 
proposition, in logic, same *t categorical proposition. See 
categorical, 2. 
predicatively (pred'i-ka-tiv-li), adr. In the 
manner of a predicate ; like a predicate. 
predicatory (pred'i-ka-to-ri), a. [== 8p. predi- 
catorio, a pulpit, = It. p'redicatorio, < LL. prve- 
dicatoriun, only in sense of 'praising,' 'lauda- 
tory,^ L. preetlicator, one who declares or pro- 
claims, one who praises, LL. also a preacher, 
< preedicare, pp. pnedicatun, declare, proclaim: 
see predicate.] If. Pertaining to preaching; 
involving preaching. 
Callings must be duly observed, whether in the school*. 
In a mi IT grammatical way. or In the church, in a tirrdi- 
calory. Up. Hall, Cases of Conscience, ill. 10. 
2. Affirmative; of the nature of a predicate: 
as, a predicatory statement. 
predicrotic (pre-di-krot'ik), a. [< pre- + di- 
crotic.] Preceding the dicrotic. Predlcrotlc 
wave, the wave next before the dicrotic wave. Sometimes 
called fint tidal vave. 
predict (pre-dikf), r. t. [< L. praedictug, pp. 
of prxdicere, say beforehand, premise, foretell, 
predict (> It. predire = Pg.predi-er = Sp. pre- 
decir = F '. predire, foretell), < prep, before, + di- 
cere, say, tell : see diction.] To foretell ; proph- 
esy; declare before the event happens; prog- 
nosticate; also, to declare before the fact is 
known by direct experience. 
All things hitherto have happened accordingly to the 
very time that I predicted them. 
Dryden, To his Sons, Sept. 3, 1897. 
= Syn. Prophesy, Premge, etc. (sec foretell), foreshow, di- 
vine. 
predict! (pre-dikf), . [< L. prsedictitnt, a pre- 
diction, foretelling, iieut. of preedictus, pp. of 
prxdicere, foretell: see predict, v.] A pre- 
diction. 
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, 
Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind, 
Or say with princes if It shall go well, 
. By oft predict that I in heaven find. 
tihalr. , Sonnets, xlv. 
predictable (pre-dik'ta-bl), a. [< predict + 
-able.] Capable' of being predicted or foretold ; 
admitting of prediction, or determination in 
advance. 
In- temperature of the air, in part regular 
and partly lawless, so far as we can see. 
C. A. Ymmg, The Sun, p. 154. 
claim, LL. and ML. also* preach: see predicate.] 
I. a. 1. Predicating or affirming. 2. Preach- 3. The act of predicating or affirming one 
In spite of every opposition from the predicant friars 
and university of Cologne, the barbarous school-books were 
superseded. Sir W. Hamilton. 
II. n. 1. One who affirms anything. 2. 
One who preaches; specifically, a preaching 
friar ; a black friar. 
In this are not the people partakers neither, but only 
their predicants and their schoolmen. 
Hooker, Discourse of Justification, Habak. 1. 4. 
A Dutch predicant, holding precisely the same theologi- 
cal tenets |as a Scotch Presbyterian), will after morning 
service spend his Sunday afternoon In the Bosch at the 
Hague, listening to what his Scottish co-religionist would 
call godless music. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 819. 
predicate (pred'i-kat), r. t. ; pret.and pp. predi- 
ciiti'il, ppr. predicating. [< L. prxdicatus, pp. 
of /n-xdicare, declare, publish, proclaim, also 
praise, extol, LL. and ML. also preach, < prte, 
before, + dicare, declare, proclaim, < dicere, 
say, tell : see diction. Cf . preach, from the same 
L. verb.] 1. To declare; assert; affirm; spe- 
cifically, to affirm as an attribute or quality of 
something ; attribute as a property or charac- 
teristic. 
It is metaphorically predicated of God that he is a con- 
suming fire. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 22. 
It would have required . . . more elevation of soul than 
could fairly be predicated of any individual for Elizabeth 
in 1587 to pardon Mary. 
Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 180. 
You cannot predicate rights where you cannot predicate 
duties. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XUII. 75. 
2. To assert, as a proposition or argument, 
upon given grounds or data; found; hence, to 
base, as an action, upon certain grounds or 
security: as, to predicate a loan. [U. S.] 
His moroseness, his party spirit, and his personal vin- predicative (pred'i-ka-tiv), a. 
dictiveness are all predicated upon the Inferno, and upon * .-.- _ p f t nredicativo < I 
.eusion or careless reading even of that. 
a misupiirchc 
thing of another; formation or expression of 
judgment; affirmation; assertion. 
The most generally received notion of predication . . . 
is that it consists in referring something to a class, L e. 
either placing an Individual under a class or placing one 
class under another class. ./. S. Mill, Logic, I. T. 
In the Sophist Plato solved the problem, and gave an ex- 
planation of the nature of predication which, making al- 
lowances for the difference of Greek and English idiom, 
is substantially the same as that given In Mill's logic. 
Amer. Jour. Philol., IX. 290. 
Accidental predication, the predication of an accident 
not contained!!! the essence. Denominative predica- 
tion, the relation of the abstract name of a quality to the 
name of the subject In which it is said to Inhere : opposed 
to univocal predication, by which the concrete is predi- 
cated Instead of the abstract ; also, the predication of any- 
thing of the nature of an accident of a subject. Direct 
predication. See direct. Essential predication, the 
predication concerning a subject of anything contained 
In 1U essence. Formal predication, a predication by 
which it Is asserted that what is denoted by the subject 
is denoted by the predicate. Indirect predication. 
See direct predication. Material predication, a predi- 
cation in which the predicate is sain to follow from or be 
otherwise related to the subject ; in other words, a pred- 
ication in which there is a material copula. Predica- 
tion de omni, the appl ication of a predicate to the whole 
breadth of a subject. Predication in quid or in eo 
quod quid, a predication answering a possible question 
''What is it?"; a predication of a species or genus. Pred- 
ication in eo quod quale or in quale quid, predica- 
tion of the specific difference which distinguishes the sub- 
ject from other things of the same genus. Predication 
in quale, the predication of an inessential predicate. 
Signate predication, a predication in which the usual 
i-upiila is replaced by some phrase referring to the terms 
and not to the things signified, as when we say Man is de- 
toed as a rational animal, Man belongs to the family f 
Primates, To die is a property of man. Univocal predi- 
cation. See denominaUte predication. Usual predica- 
tion i priedicatio exercita], a predication In which the cop- 
ula refers directly to the things or qualities signified by 
the subject and predicate. 
' a. [= F. predica- 
< \Aj.prsedicdtinix, 
prediction (prf-dik'shgn). n. [< OF. prediction, 
F. prediction = Sp. prediccion = Pg. predicfSo 
= It. prcdizionc, prediction, < L. prsedictio(n-), 
a saying beforehand, premising, also a foretell- 
ing, prediction, < prsedicere, pp. nrsedictus, say 
before, foretell: see predict.] The act of pre- 
dicting or foretelling; a prophecy; declaration 
concerning future events. 
I am thinking, brother, of a predittiani read this other 
day, what should follow these eclipses. 
Shot., Lev, L 2. 152. 
Let me not rashly call in doubt 
Divine prediction; what If all foretold 
Had been fulnll'd but through mine own default, 
Whom have I to complain of but myself? 
Mill-in, S. A., I. 44. 
= Syn. Prediction, Prophecy, Dirination, Prognostication, 
augury, vaticination, soothsaying. Prophecy is the high- 
est of these words, ordinarily expressing an Inspired fore- 
telling of future events, and only figuratively expressing 
anything else. It Is the only one of them that expreue* 
the power as well as the act : as, the gift of prophecy. 
Prediction may or may not be an Inspired act ; it is most 
commonly used of the foretelling of events In accordance 
with knowledge gained through scientific investigations 
or practical experience, and U thus the most general of 
these words. Divination is the act of an augur or an im- 
postor. Prognostication It the interpretation of signs with 
reference to the future, especially as to the course of dis- 
ease. See foretell, prophet, inference. 
d'eclaring,assertlng,< 
predictional (pre-dik'shon-al), a. [< prediction 
+ -al.] Of the 'nature of prediction; predic- 
tive ; prophetic ; indicative of later events. 
The contests betwixt scholars and scholars . . . were 
observed predictional, as if their animosities were the In- 
dex of the volume of the land, fuller. Worthies IIL S. 
predictive (pro-dik'tiv), a. [< L. prsedictivvn, 
foretelling, < prtedicere^ pp. prtedictus, foretell : 
see predict.] Prophetic; indicative of some- 
thing future. 
She slowly rose, 
With bitter smile predictive of my woes. 
Crabbe, Works, VII. 34. 
The statements of Scripture which relate to judgment 
and heaven and hell are predictive, and therefore have the 
characteristics of prophetic teaching. 
Prnjretnve Orthodoxy, p. 80. 
