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predication

/pred-i-key-shuhn/US // ˌprɛd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən //

预言,预测,预言性,预设

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of asserting something:Although he struggled academically, the school's predication that he couldn't learn and succeed without medication was thankfully proven false.
    • : an act or instance of basing an action or statement on something else:His video installation Revolution explores lingering Socialist and Muslim dreams in Egypt and their continued predication on drama and violence.
    • : Grammar, Logic. an act or instance of combining a subject and a predicate, according to rules of syntax, so as to make a statement about something:What is the function, for example, of the predication “Whales are mammals” in a discourse?
    • : Law. evidence of possible criminal action, sufficient to warrant a charge or inquiry:There were a number of things that caused us to believe we had adequate predication to open the investigation.
    • : an uncommon variant of prediction.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incontention

Examples

  • To minds of a different description, the only antidote to this corruption of language is predication.

  • Argument against those who admit no predication to be legitimate, except identical.

  • Good three pil'd predication, will you peace, And hear the cause we come for?Cun.

  • What in his system corresponds most nearly to the modern view of these elements is the division of kinds of real predication.

  • Accordingly ‘substance,’ which is a correlative term to ‘predication,’ shares in the ambiguity.