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drpaladin

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In law a predicate crime is part of a larger crime.

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We were all taught predicate in grammar at school. Predicate (usually pronounced slightly differently) is also a verb meaning to affirm or to declare in the sense of declaring something to be an attribute, quality or property of a group.

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Halloween predicates Jack O' Lanterns and Trick or Treat.

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The word "predicate" comes from the Latin praedicatum, meaning "that which is said of the subject".  It derives from the verb praedicare, meaning "to proclaim" or "declare publicly," which is a combination of prae- ("before" or "forth") and dicare ("to proclaim" or "say"). The meaning of "that which is asserted" or "declared about a subject" was first used in logic before entering grammar.  The word passed from Latin into French as predicat. 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun "predicate" was first used in English in the mid-15th century, while the verb "predicate" first appeared in the mid-1500s.  The noun "predicate" was first recorded in the mid-15th century, used as a term in logic to describe "that which is said of a subject" (e.g., went home in John went home ).   The verb "predicate," meaning "to declare, assert, or affirm that something is true," is first recorded in the mid-1500s, specifically from 1552 in the writings of Richard Huloet.  The grammatical sense of the word "predicate" emerged later, in the 1630s.  
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