Predicable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. That can be stated or predicated: a predicable conclusion.
  • n. Something, such as a general quality or attribute, that can be predicated.
  • n. Logic One of the general attributes of a subject or class. In scholastic thought, the attributes are genus, species, property, differentia, and accident; in Aristotelian thought, they are definition, genus, proprium, and accident.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That may be used in the predicate of a sentence, especially following a form of the verb "to be".
  • n. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
  • n. One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.
  • n. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
  • n. One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being predicated or affirmed; assertable.
  • n. A logical term considered as capable of being universally predicated of another; usually, one of the five words, or five kinds of predicates, according to the Aristotelian logic, namely genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
    • Word Usage
    "A predicable was another name for a universal, the common term being called a predicable in one relation and a universal in another-a predicable, extensively, in so far as it was applicable to several different things, a universal, intensively, in so far as the attributes indicated were implied in several other notions, as the attributes indicated by 'animal' are implied in 'horse,' 'sheep,'"
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    affirmable    attributable   
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    dyad    truculent-looking    ineluctable    article    clitoral   
     
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