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predication
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See also: prédication
English
Alternative forms
- prædication (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English predicacion, from Anglo-Norman predicaciun, from Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
predication (countable and uncountable, plural predications)
- A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
- An assertion or affirmation.
- 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 24 February 2014:
- It can be immediately observed from these sentences that the English subject of a predication is translated in Japanese with a wa-phrase, while the subject of a nonpredicational description appears as a ga-phrase.
- (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
- (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.
Translations
proclamation, announcement or preaching
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The action of making a term or expression the predicate of a statement
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See also
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “predication”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Further reading
predication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
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