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a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.

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The proper noun when spoken can be confused for the common noun.
The Zen of Yo|Dale Eisinger|August 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The noun “mechanicals” refers to any physical reproduction of a composed and performed work—that is, “canned music.”
Van Dyke Parks on How Songwriters Are Getting Screwed in the Digital Age|Van Dyke Parks|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The Great Depression” as a proper noun only came into popular use in the 1950s, long after the event was over.
Our Ruling Ideology Is Denial|Eugene Linden|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
FRIEDMAN: I think you also laid the predicate for the Iran negotiations.
Transcript: Thomas Friedman Interviews Hillary Clinton and Christine Lagarde||April 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

His 2004 Democratic Convention address propelled him into the national spotlight, laying the presidential predicate.
President Obama’s Belgian Waffle|Stuart Stevens|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I can find no authority for making it a collective noun, as Bell suggests.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
This often becomes an abstract feminine noun, answering to the French termination -ée; armée in Mistral's language isPg 56 armado.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
The major term is usually the predicate of the major premise and the predicate of the conclusion.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
An argument that uses as a premise such a cause may predicate its effect as a conclusion with absolute certainty.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
On the other hand, when the words “a black” are heard, the mind constructs no image; it waits until the noun modified is spoken.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster