Definition of Predicatively

1. Adverb. Occurring within the predicate phrase. "Predicatively used adjectives"

Partainyms: Predicative

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

predicant
predicants
predicate
predicate calculus
predicate logic
predicated
predicates
predicating
predication
predications
predicative
predicative adjective
predicative adjectives
predicative case
predicative cases
predicatively (current term)
predicatives
predicator
predicators
predicatory
predicrotic
predict
predictabilities
predictability
predictable
predictableness
predictably
predictand
predictands
predicted

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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