Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to predicaments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a predicament.
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- adjective Relating to a
predicament .
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Examples
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Ratio praedicamenti is being; it is the reason why every essence generally falls within the predicamental sphere.
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Hence when a thing loses its existential being, its essence cannot be said to exist; but it does retain its true predicamental or essential being (esse essentiae).
Godfrey of Fontaines Wippel, John 2006
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The category, in its predicamental sense, involves that of relation, as is noted by Aristotle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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In this sense it is called predicable, as distinguished from predicamental, accident, the latter term standing for a real objective form or status of things, and denoting
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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