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61predicate — v.t. affirm; preach; state;, n. attribute affirmed; Grammar, part of sentence containing statement about subject. ♦ predicant, n. & a. preaching (friar). ♦ predication, ♦ predicator, n. ♦ predicative, ♦ predicatory, a …
62predicate — , predication Mana oha i …
63predicate — To use as a basis or ground of an action, defense, or argument …
64predicate — see INDICATE …
65predicate — v. & n. v.tr. 1 assert or affirm as true or existent. 2 (foll. by on) found or base (a statement etc.) on. n. 1 Gram. what is said about the subject of a sentence etc. (e.g. went home in John went home). 2 Logic a what is predicated. b what is… …
66predicate calculus — noun Date: 1950 the branch of symbolic logic that uses symbols for quantifiers and for arguments and predicates of propositions as well as for unanalyzed propositions and logical connectives called also functional calculus compare propositional… …
67predicate nominative — noun Date: 1887 a noun or pronoun in the nominative or common case completing the meaning of a copula …
68predicate objective — Gram. See objective complement. * * * …
69predicate calculus — noun the branch of symbolic logic concerned with propositions containing predicates, names, and quantifiers …
70predicate calculus — pred′icate cal′culus n. pho functional calculus • Etymology: 1945–50 …