PRED'ICATE, v.t. [L. proedico; proe and dico, to say.]
To affirm one thing of another; as, to predicate whiteness of snow. Reason may be predicated of man.
PRED'ICATE, v.i. To affirm; to comprise an affirmation.
PRED'ICATE, n. In logic, that which, in a proposition, is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, ""paper is white."" ""ink is not white,"" whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper, and denied of ink.
