predicable
Americanadjective
noun
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that which may be predicated; an attribute.
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Logic. any one of the various kinds of predicate that may be used of a subject.
adjective
noun
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a quality, attribute, etc, that can be predicated
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obsolete logic one of the five Aristotelian classes of predicates ( the five heads of predicables ), namely genus, species, difference, property, and relation
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Etymology
Origin of predicable
1545–55; < Latin praedicābilis assertable, Latin: praiseworthy, equivalent to praedicā ( re ) to declare publicly ( see predicate) + -bilis -ble
Example Sentences
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If Kamala Harris wins investors expect her trade and foreign policies to be a continuation of Joe Biden's more predicable approach.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
The dualities of love and hate, life and death, dissolve at Disney, making imagining beyond the predicable possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
She said a surge of cases in the winter, when people are socializing indoors, was utterly predicable, and yet schools were not ready when it happened.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2022
We get away with this and stay safe the vast majority of the time because airplanes are small and predicable and the sky is spacious and friendly.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2016
Penelope was no astronomer, of course, but she understood enough to know that the moon had been keeping a rather predicable schedule for countless thousands of years.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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