Predicable Definition

prĕdĭ-kə-bəl
adjective
Capable of being predicated.
Webster's New World

(grammar, of an adjective) That may be used in the predicate of a sentence, especially following a form of the verb "to be".

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noun
Something predicable.
Webster's New World
Any of the several sorts of predicate that can be used of a subject, as, in Aristotelian logic, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
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Other Word Forms of Predicable

Noun

Singular:
predicable
Plural:
predicables

Origin of Predicable

  • Late Latin praedicābilis from praedicāre to proclaim publicly, preach, predicate preach

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Predicable Sentence Examples

  • In contrast, an integral whole is not predicable of its parts taken singularly.

  • That the European strategy for Turkey amounted to very little was all too predicable.

  • The universal is not anything really existing; it is a terminus or predicable (whence the followers of Occam were at first called Terminists).

  • Many so-called accidents are predicable necessarily of any particular persons.

  • This is indeed the very essence of distribution, that a universal is predicable, not singly or collectively, but severally and similarly of each and every individual of a kind, or total of similar individuals.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRE

Words Ending With

ELEBLE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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