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Definition of Predicable
1. a. Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.
2. n. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
Definition of Predicable
1. Adjective. (context: grammar of an adjective) That may be used in the predicate of a sentence, especially following a form of the verb "to be". ¹
2. Noun. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals. ¹
3. Noun. (logic) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predicable
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicable
Literary usage of Predicable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"long-lived) ; we farther know that В is predicable of all С (ie that men, horses,
mules, &c., belong or vacant bite : but they need not be co-extensive with ..."
2. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"The Two predicable-Classes. Logicians have always formed a classification of ...
We propose to give the simplest form to this scheme of predicable-Classes, ..."
3. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"Definition of predicable. The predicables are a classification of the relations
... We cannot absolutely refer any General Term to one definite predicable; ..."
4. Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the Form of a Catechism with Reasons for by Jeremy Bentham (1817)
"... to any other quarter, are, or in sin- cerity add reality can be, addressed,
IX, Abdication—more truly predicable of Honourable House, than of James II. ..."
5. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"categories either those concepts which are so universal as to be predicable of
things of the most different kinds, and to have a different meaning according ..."
6. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"ruled ; no attribute or act of an intelligence is predicable of him. Mr.
Coleridge accordingly denies that God has any right of dominion over " rational and ..."
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