(Grammar)(of an adjective or noun) forming or contained in the predicate, as old in the dog is old (but not in the old dog) and house in there is a large house (语法)(形容词,名词)作表语的,谓语性的(如the dog is old 中的old,而the old dog 中的old 则不是;又如there is a large house 中的house)。 与attributive 相对 ■denoting a use of the verb to be to assert something about the subject (指动词be用法)对主语作出断言的
(Logic)acting as a predicate (逻)作谓项的
派生 predicatively adverb 语源
mid 19th cent.: from Latin praedicativus, from praedicat- 'declared' (in medieval Latin 'predicated'), from the verb praedicare (see predicate)