transitive verb predicated -·cat′ed, predicating -·cat′·ing

1. Obsolete to proclaim; preach; declare; affirm
2. 1. to affirm as a quality, attribute, or property of a person or thing to predicate the honesty of another's motives
   2. Logic to assert (something) about the subject of a proposition
3. to affirm or base (something) on or upon given facts, arguments, conditions, etc.
4. to imply or connote

Etymology: L praedicatus, pp. of praedicare: see preach

intransitive verb

noun

1. Gram. the verb or verbal phrase, including any complements, objects, and modifiers, that is one of the two immediate constituents of a sentence and asserts something about the subject
2. Logic something that is affirmed or denied about the subject of a proposition (Ex.: green in “grass is green”)

Etymology: ML praedicatum, neut. of praedicatus: see predicatethe

adjective