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predicatively

  • a word derived from predicate.
    predicate
    noun
    (in many languages, such as English) one of the two main parts of a sentence, containing the verb and any of its objects, modifiers, or other completions, and generally expressing an action, state, or condition: for example, got here quickly in Larry got here quickly, or ate a cookie in I ate a cookie, or slept in The exhausted student slept.
  • a word derived from predicative.
    predicative
    adjective
    grammar relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence Compare attributive

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Here en, ech, on, ex, are apparently the simple personal pronouns I, thou, we, you, and are used predicatively.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton

When used predicatively, as yooroang or yoorwang, he is strong, an adjective can be conjugated through all the tenses and moods of an intransitive verb: Present Tense.

From The Gundungurra Language by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

These are used predicatively to denote indefinite value; as,— nūlla studia tantī sunt, no studies are of so much value; magnī opera ejus exīstimāta est, his assistance was highly esteemed.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

Any of the above varieties of the Genitive of Quality may be used predicatively; as,— tantae mōlis erat Rōmānam condere gentem, of so great difficulty was it to found the Roman race.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

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