Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to predicate
Participle: predicated
Gerund: predicating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | predicate |
| you | predicate |
| he;she;it | predicates |
| we | predicate |
| you | predicate |
| they | predicate |
Perfect
| I | have predicated |
| you | have predicated |
| he;she;it | has predicated |
| we | have predicated |
| you | have predicated |
| they | have predicated |
Past
| I | predicated |
| you | predicated |
| he;she;it | predicated |
| we | predicated |
| you | predicated |
| they | predicated |
Pluperfect
| I | had predicated |
| you | had predicated |
| he;she;it | had predicated |
| we | had predicated |
| you | had predicated |
| they | had predicated |
Future
| I | will predicate |
| you | will predicate |
| he;she;it | will predicate |
| we | will predicate |
| you | will predicate |
| they | will predicate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have predicated |
| you | will have predicated |
| he;she;it | will have predicated |
| we | will have predicated |
| you | will have predicated |
| they | will have predicated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | predicate |
| you | predicate |
| he;she;it | predicate |
| we | predicate |
| you | predicate |
| they | predicate |
Perfect
| I | have predicated |
| you | have predicated |
| he;she;it | have predicated |
| we | have predicated |
| you | have predicated |
| they | have predicated |
Imperfect
| I | predicated |
| you | predicated |
| he;she;it | predicated |
| we | predicated |
| you | predicated |
| they | predicated |
Pluperfect
| I | had predicated |
| you | had predicated |
| he;she;it | had predicated |
| we | had predicated |
| you | had predicated |
| they | had predicated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would predicate |
| you | would predicate |
| he;she;it | would predicate |
| we | would predicate |
| you | would predicate |
| they | would predicate |
Perfect
| I | would have predicated |
| you | would have predicated |
| he;she;it | would have predicated |
| we | would have predicated |
| you | would have predicated |
| they | would have predicated |
Imperative
| you | predicate |
| we | Let's predicate |
| you | predicate |
Verbs conjugated like 'predicate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'predicate'
prædicate,
predilate,
dedicate,
eradicate,
medicate,
predate,
predict,
predilute,
prejudicate,
prelocate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1532, a term in logic, from L.
prædicatum "that which is said of the subject," prop. neut. pp. of
prædicare "assert, proclaim, declare publicly," from
præ- "forth, before" +
dicare "proclaim," from stem of
dicere "to speak, to say" (see diction). Grammatical sense is from 1638. Phrase
predicated on "founded on, based on," is Amer.Eng., first recorded 1766.
2. From Latin praedicātus, perfect passive participle of praedicō (“to publish, declare, proclaim”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from prae- (“before”) + dicō (“to proclaim, dedicate”), related to dīcō (“to say, tell”). Doublet of preach.
Verbs referencing "predicate"
Finnish with old forms
predikoida.
Sample Sentences
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There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. [1859, Charles Dickens, “The Wine-shop”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 21:]
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Of anyone else it would have been said that she was finding the afternoon rather dreary in the vast halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely. [1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the third (De Stancy), page 59:]
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The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. [1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81)]
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Cryptocurrencies, after all, are in many cases not so much currencies as speculative thingamabobs — digital tokens whose value is predicated largely on the idea that someone will take them off your hands at a higher price than it cost you to acquire them. [2022 February 2, Jody Rosen, “Why Is Matt Damon Shilling for Crypto?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
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1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism
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This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).