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Definition of Predicatively
1. Adverb. Occurring within the predicate phrase. "Predicatively used adjectives"
Definition of Predicatively
1. Adverb. As a predicate; giving information about the subject of a sentence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predicatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicatively
Literary usage of Predicatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Graiméar na Gaeḋilge by Na Bráiṫreaċaiḃ Críostaṁla, Christian Brothers (1901)
"An adjective used predicatively always follows its noun, except when it is ...
An adjective used predicatively never agrees with its noun in either gender, ..."
2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... has passed inte an intransitive or passive meaning, and frequently leans
predicatively upon a substantive notion, as in: There is mure owing her, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In course of time a distinction came to be made between an attribute used as a
mere qualificative and an attribute used predicatively, and this distinction ..."
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