Definition of Predicatory

1. a. Affirmative; positive.

Definition of Predicatory

1. Adjective. affirmative; positive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predicatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicatory

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

Literary usage of Predicatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"As we have seen in the predicatory cases, chorea seems to hold control of the other complications. It monopolizes, as it were, the attention of the ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... a. predicatory (rare), predicant (rare). Cross references: see Note. praiseful: laudatory. prank, n.: frolic, caper, jest. prank, r. /. ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Affirmation concerning anything ; declaration of any position. predicatory, (pred'-de-ka-tni-e)o. Affirmative ; positive ; decisive. ..."

4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1877)
"Their slightly predicatory character must be pardoned, as long as our Bishops have no time to attend to these trifling affairs of the profane world. ..."

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