PRED'ICATE, verb transitive [Latin proedico; proe and dico, to say.] To affirm one thing of another; as, to predicate whiteness of snow. Reason may be predicated of man. PRED'ICATE, verb intransitive To affirm; to comprise an affirmation. PRED'ICATE, noun In logic, that which, in a proposition, 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.
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