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predicate

English

🔊 one of the two main constituents of a sentence
🔊 (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition
“`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates”
🔊 affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
“The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President”
🔊 make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
“The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'”
🔊 involve as a necessary condition of consequence
“solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”