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. (present participle of predicate English)
Usage examples of "predicating".
Peed all the known, unchangeable factors into the program, and then add the ones that can be changed, predicating inter dependence, making the variations according to a pattern, and analyzing the shape of the world that emerges, each one a computer model.
Some complicate the question by predicating the existence of a fourth dimension in that world, but the term is an absurdity, as are all terms which find no corresponding impression in the human brain.
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.