predication

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predication

  • /ˌpɹɛ.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Where it comes from

From Middle English predicacion, from Anglo-Norman predicaciun, from Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.

noun predications · prædication

  1. countable, uncountable A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
  2. countable, uncountable An assertion or affirmation. It can be immediately observed from these sentences that the English subject of a predication is translated in Japanese with a wa-phrase, while the subject of a nonpredicational description appears as a ga-phrase.
  3. countable, uncountable The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
  4. countable, uncountable The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.

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noun proclamation, announcement or preaching

DeutschAnkündigung, Vorhersage

noun assertion or affirmation

DeutschAussage

noun The action of making a term or expression the predicate of a statement

DeutschPrädikation

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@misc{predication_2026,
  title = {predication},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/predication},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}