Predication

Predˊi-ca′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

praedicatio

: cf. F.

prédication

.]

1.

The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.

Locke.

2.

Preaching.

[Obs. or Scot.]

Chaucer.

,

Noun.

[L. proedicatio.] Affirmation of something, or the act of affirming one thing of another.

See also: prédication

predication ‎(plural predications)

A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
An assertion or affirmation.
- 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 2014-02-24:
  
  It can be immediately observed from these sentences that the English subject of a predication is translated in Japanese with a wa-phrase, while the subject of a nonpredicational description appears as a ga-phrase.
(logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
(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.