• Prædicate

    Full definition of prædicate

    Noun

    prædicate

    (plural prædicates)
    1. Obsolete form of predicate
      • 1875, Alfred James Swinbourne, Picture Logic, second edition (Longmans, Green, and Co.), chapter 22, page 142:By help of such probable reasoning we are enabled to make syllogisms out of propositions with the sign “most” or “many,” instead of “all” or “some;” and we can take into account the force of such words as “probably,” without (as in strict Logic) thrusting them into the subject or prædicate.

    Verb

    1. Obsolete spelling of predicate
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