predication

Middle English predicacion, from Anglo-Norman predicaciun, from Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.

predication (countable and uncountable, plural predications)

1. A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
2. 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.

3. (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
4. (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.

• prediction

• OED 2nd edition 1989

• procidentia, prædiction