Both Uses
predicated
in
The Pardoner's Tale
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- Bulles of popes, and of cardinales, Of patriarchs, and of bishops I shew, And in Latin I speak a wordes few, To savour with my predication, And for to stir men to devotion Then show I forth my longe crystal stones, Y-crammed fall of cloutes* and of bones; *rags, fragments Relics they be, as *weene they* each one.†
- <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.†
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Definitions:
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(predicated as in: predicated upon) to indicate that something is a necessary condition for another thing to be true or to happen
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The noun form predicate is also used with many other meanings. For example, it refers to one of the two main parts of any sentence.
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions such as one used in formal logic.