predication noun. [prɛdɪ'keɪʃ(ǝ)n] ME.
[Old & mod. French prédication or Latin praedicatio(n-), formed as PREDICATE verb: see -ATION.]
1. Preaching; a sermon, an oration. Now rare. ME.

2. The action or an act of predicating something; an assertion; Grammar & Logic the assertion of something about a subject, the constructing of a predicate. L15.
verb of incomplete predication Grammar a verb introducing a word, phrase, or clause identifying, defining, or describing the subject (as English be, seem), a copular verb.

3. The action of extolling or commending something. E16-M17.

■ predicational adjective L19.

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