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prædicative

prædicative

English

Adjective

prædicative (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of predicative
    • 1886, Thomas le Marchant Douse, An Introduction, Phonological, Morphological, Syntactic to the Gothic of Ulfilas (Taylor and Francis), page 138:
      The I-E. Adjective and Substantive were once probably identical; and the former was differentiated from the latter by its gradual appropriation to the discharge of prædicative and attributive functions.

Noun

prædicative (plural prædicatives)

  1. Obsolete spelling of predicative