Associations to the word «Predication»

Wiktionary

PREDICATION, noun. A proclamation, announcement or preaching
PREDICATION, noun. An assertion or affirmation
PREDICATION, noun. (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition
PREDICATION, noun. (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated

Dictionary definition

PREDICATION, noun. (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope