Syn. -- Category; condition; state; plight.
Pre*dic`a*men"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall
(1646).
Pred"i*cant (?), a. [L. praedicans, -antis, p. pr. of praedicare. See
Predicate.] Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence;
preaching. "The Roman predicant orders." N. Brit. Rev.
Pred"i*cant, n. One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims;
specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican.
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.] 1. To assert to belong to something; to affirm
(one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.