predicating

Verb

predicate (third-person singular simple present predicates, present participle predicating, simple past and past participle predicated)

1. (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
2. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
   • There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.1859, Charles Dickens, “The Wine-shop”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 21
3. (transitive) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
   • The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81)
4. (transitive) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
5. (transitive) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
   • This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism

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