- an act or instance of asserting something:Although he struggled academically, the school's predication that he couldn't learn and succeed without medication was thankfully proven false.
- an act or instance of basing an action or statement on something else:His video installation Revolution explores lingering Socialist and Muslim dreams in Egypt and their continued predication on drama and violence.
- an act or instance of combining a subject and a predicate, according to rules of syntax, so as to make a statement about something:What is the function, for example, of the predication “Whales are mammals” in a discourse?
- evidence of possible criminal action, sufficient to warrant a charge or inquiry:There were a number of things that caused us to believe we had adequate predication to open the investigation.
- prediction.
