[pred.i.ca.tion] n [ME predicacion, fr. MF predication, fr. L praedication-, praedicatio, fr. praedicare] (14c) 1 archaic a: an act of proclaiming or preaching b: sermon
2: an act or instance of predicating: as a: the expression of action, state, or quality by a grammatical predicate b: the logical affirmation of something about another; esp: assignment of something to a class