predication

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the grammatical or logical act of asserting a property, action, or class membership of a subject

   In the sentence The sky is blue, predication links the subject with a stated property.

2. 2
   noun

   an assertion or statement made about a subject

   The argument depends on the predication that every just act benefits the community.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of publicly proclaiming or preaching; archaic

   The chronicler praised the friar's forceful predication before the crowd.

From Middle English predicacion, through Anglo-French from Latin praedicatio, 'proclamation or preaching,' from praedicare, 'proclaim.' The logical and grammatical senses developed through the related verb predicate, 'assert of a subject.'

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