Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of proclaiming publicly or preaching; hence, a sermon; a religious discourse.
- noun The act of predicating or affirming one thing of another; formation or expression of judgment; affirmation; assertion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.
- noun Obs. or Scot. Preaching.
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- noun A
proclamation ,announcement orpreaching - noun An
assertion oraffirmation - noun logic A
self-evident postulate - noun computing The
parallel execution of all possible outcomes of abranch instruction , all except one of which are discarded after the branchcondition has beenevaluated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
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Examples
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_predication_; and, as all beliefs express ideas of relation, we may say that the sign of predication is the verbal symbol of a feeling of relation.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS.
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My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS.
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My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS.
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My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS.
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My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS.
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My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS.
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As Homi K. Bhabha has argued, the stereotype, as a structure of predication, is fraught with contradiction: on the one hand, it is supposed to articulate a naturalized, self-evident truth, something that "goes without saying"; and yet, the fact that the stereotype depends upon continual reiteration (as in Bromion's repeated reference to Oothoon's harlotry) suggests that its authority is always less than comfortably stable.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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His objections appear to stem from two deeply held intuitions, which I will call the predication intuition and the glue intuition.
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
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But another is the idea of a substance as an ultimate subject of predication, that is, as something of which properties or relations may be predicated, but which is itself never predicated of anything else.
Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006
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