PREDICATEv.t.
[L. proedico; proe and dico, to say.]
To affirm one thing of another; as, to predicate whiteness of snow. Reason may be predicated of man.
PREDICATEv.i.
To affirm; to comprise an affirmation.
PREDICATEn.
In logic, that which, in a proposition, is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "paper is white." "ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper, and denied of ink.