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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
predicate .
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When the predicate is a class, the term predicated is called a Genus, if the subject itself be a class, or a Species, if it be an individual.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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Whether a term predicated is implied in the definition of the subject, or adds something to its meaning, deserves our constant attention.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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And on top o that, just pulled up the weather report and see rain predicated for next 5 days.
Rising Lake 2004
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One of the most thoughtful analyses of how the American system can remain predicated on the noblest of values while allowing the vilest of crimes was offered in 1971 by a brilliant and earnest young foreign-service officer who had just resigned from the National Security Council to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
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One of the most thoughtful analyses of how the American system can remain predicated on the noblest of values while allowing the vilest of crimes was offered in 1971 by a brilliant and earnest young foreign-service officer who had just resigned from the National Security Council to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
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One of the most thoughtful analyses of how the American system can remain predicated on the noblest of values while allowing the vilest of crimes was offered in 1971 by a brilliant and earnest young foreign-service officer who had just resigned from the National Security Council to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
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But the quality of the call predicated more of a catastrophe than a mere blockade.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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For suppose that A is predicated of F, and that the intermediates-call them BB’B” ... - are infinite, then clearly you might descend from and find one term predicated of another ad infinitum, since you have an infinity of terms between you and F; and equally, if you ascend from F, there are infinite terms between you and A.
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.”
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It is bridge financing in other words, predicated on growing the target's base of resources and output, rather than a bet on commodities.
KKR's Unconventional Gas Bet Liam Denning 2011
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