predication

See also: prédication

English

Alternative forms

• prædication (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɛ.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

predication (countable and uncountable, plural predications)

1. A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
2. An assertion or affirmation.
   • 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT‎^[1], retrieved 24 February 2014:

     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. (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
4. (computing) 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.

Derived terms

• copredication
• predicational

Translations

proclamation, announcement or preaching

• Bulgarian: заявление (bg) n (zajavlenie)
• German: Ankündigung (de), Vorhersage (de)

assertion or affirmation

• Bulgarian: твърдение (bg) n (tvărdenie)
• German: Aussage (de)

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

• German: Prädikation (de)
• Māori: whakapaparangitanga

See also

• prediction

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “predication”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Further reading

• predication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• procidentia, prædiction