| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pred·i·ca·ble |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pr d  -k -bl |
| ADJECTIVE: | That can be stated or predicated: a predicable conclusion. | | NOUN: | 1. Something, such as a general quality or attribute, that can be predicated. 2. Logic One of the general attributes of a subject or class. In scholastic thought, the attributes are genus, species, property, differentia, and accident; in Aristotelian thought, they are definition, genus, proprium, and accident. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin praedic bilis, from praedicre, to proclaim publicly, preach, predicate. See preach. | | OTHER FORMS: | pred i·ca·bili·ty, predi·ca·ble·ness —NOUN
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