predicate
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Predicate the portion of a sentence that provides the description or characterization of an object or name.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The Predicate is evidently a Class whose peculiar Attribute is “relating to excise”.
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
Then return to the sentence as a whole, and group round its Subject, Predicate, and Object the various subordinate clauses which belong to each.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
It may be that the Predicate is solely a predicate of time.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
The phrase “looks poetical” evidently belongs to the Predicate; and the Subject is the Class, of persons, whose peculiar Attribute is “not-pale”.
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
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