predicate

• Fun crept into adjectival usage in large part because of its ambiguous use as a predicate, as in "That party was fun," where it can be read as either a noun or an adjective. —  Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
• And it's based on a predicate which is that the war that we're fighting is not the war of big weapons. —  NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS
• 8 It must however be borne in mind that the term covered by the reduplication signifies the nature rather than the suppositum, since it is added as a predicate, which is taken formally, for it is the same to say "Christ as Man" and to say "Christ as He is a Man." —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• Now, the one predicate which is essential in all things, without whose presence nothing can be, is the will of God. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• Mill, who defines it as "a portion of discourse in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject" (_Logic_, Book 1., chap. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive

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