PRED'ICABLE, adjective [Latin proedicabilis, from proedico, to affirm; proe and dico, to say.] That may be affirmed of something; that may be attributed to. Animal is predicable of man. Intelligence is not predicable of plants. More or less is not predicable of a circle or of a square. Whiteness is not predicable of time. PRED'ICABLE, noun One of the five things which can be affirmed of any thing. Genus, species, difference, property, and accident are the five predicables.
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