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predicated
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predicated as in:  predicated upon

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    The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates.†  (source)
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    Granting this constant dreaming effect and predicating it on the neurophysiological structures they possess, it would seem that they might splash around enjoying their own sound tracks.†  (source)
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    But as soon as the author ventures to declare that the foundations which he predicates now, part of which Father Iosif just enumerated, are the permanent, essential, and eternal foundations, he is going directly against the Church and its sacred and eternal vocation.†  (source)
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    And in a place predicated on degradation, stealing from the enemy won back the men's dignity.†  (source)
    predicated = dependent upon
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    I do at least seem to catch the key to a part of this abundance of small anxious, ingenious illustration as I recollect putting my finger, in my young woman's interest, on the most obvious of her predicates.†  (source)
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    "Abide, for Godde's digne* passion, *worthy For we shall have a predication: This Lollard here will preachen us somewhat."†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a predicate in the past tense.†  (source)
    predicate = something that is necessary for something else
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    He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come.†  (source)
    predicated = dependent upon
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    I do at least seem to catch the key to a part of this abundance of small anxious, ingenious illustration as I recollect putting my finger, in my young woman's interest, on the most obvious of her predicates.†  (source)
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    <5> For certes *many a predication *preaching is often inspired Cometh oft-time of evil intention;* by evil motives* Some for pleasance of folk, and flattery, To be advanced by hypocrisy; And some for vainglory, and some for hate.†  (source)
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    Here were encyclopedic sentences that left subject and predicate completely out of shouting distance.†  (source)
    predicate = something that is necessary for something else
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    Just as my dad's rituals, his betting systems, all his oracles and magic were predicated on a field awareness of unseen patterns, so too the explosion in Delft was part of a complex of events that ricocheted into the present.†  (source)
    predicated = dependent upon
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    What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word quality cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates.†  (source)
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