Crossword clues for predicated
predicated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predicate \Pred"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Predicating.] [L. praedicatus, p. p. of praedicare to cry in public, to proclaim. See Preach.]
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
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To found; to base. [U.S.]
Note: Predicate is sometimes used in the United States for found or base; as, to predicate an argument on certain principles; to predicate a statement on information received. Predicate is a term in logic, and used only in a single case, namely, when we affirm one thing of another. ``Similitude is not predicated of essences or substances, but of figures and qualities only.''
--Cudworth.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: predicate)
Usage examples of "predicated".
He correctly predicated the German plan of attack upon a right-wing envelopment but, schooled in the French theories, estimated the force that would come down west ol the Meuse at no more than four divisions.
In consultation with the French General Staff, they selected landing bases and staging areas along a front from Charleroi to Namur and into the Ardennes, predicated on a German invasion through Belgium.
Their joint plans with the French were predicated on an Expeditionary Force of six divisions to arrive in France between M-4 and M-12 and to be ready for action on the extreme left of the French line by M-1j.
So, if she allows herself to enter fully into a relationship predicated on trust, she immediately runs into trouble.
Or was your career choice predicated on the concept that you could never do what your father did .
As a country whose very formation was predicated on rejection of overseas interference, how are we going to cope with running the internal affairs of another country on another continent?
The minister of education is your first target because so much of the scheme is predicated on bringing up the literacy and skilled-labour level in under a decade.
The whole Beninia project was predicated on our being able to process every step of it through Shalmaneser - not just the hardware of it, but the educational programmes, the probable diplomatic crises, the entire economy of the country practically down to the prodgies' pocket-money for half a century from now.
The plan gave him a simple and obvious guide to action, yes--but it was predicated on everyone else knowing the rules, even if he did not.
Further, the plan was predicated on everyone else following those unknown rules as well.
The logic worked, but it was predicated on a complete disregard for reality.
He also knew, however, that course of action was predicated on their being afraid of his immaturity.
There’s a whole school of cosmology predicated around the weak an-thropic principle, that the universe is as it seems because, if it was any other way, we would not exist to observe it.
In fact, the entire expedition was predicated on the assumption that what they were fighting was sufficiently human in outlook to understand the concept of warfare and to use the sort of weapons overeducated apes might throw at one another.