Word Meaning

Meaning of "predicate" and the crossword clue

- To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
- To found; to base.
- To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
- That which 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.
- The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
- Predicated.