predicative
Britishadjective
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grammar relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence Compare attributive
a predicative adjective
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logic (of a definition) given in terms that do not require quantification over entities of the same type as that which is thereby defined Compare impredicative
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Of all the numbers people want to throw out about the Seahawks, turnover margin remains the most predicative in the Carroll era.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2018
The most conventional was Hindi, with only a single unusual feature, predicative possession.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
But will access to such predicative analytics remove the zeal in advertising?
From Forbes • Apr. 27, 2015
Nevertheless, these Semitic names, too, though predicative in the beginning, became subjective, and from being the various names of One Being, lapsed into names of various beings.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
With the 400 or 500 predicative roots at her disposal, language would not have been at a loss to coin names for all things that come under our cognizance.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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