predicatory

adjective

1. affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications.

   The just degrees of callings must be herein duly observed; whether in a public way, as pastors of congregations ; or in a private way , as masters of families : whether in the schools , in a mere grammatical way ; or in the church , in a predicatory

2. Forming an ontologically neutral predicate; implying no new information or qualities.

   In a 'predicatory' sense, whatever we say in our natural language about an object defines a property: an object has the property of being such that 'x'.·

Where it comes from

Compare Latin praedicatorius (“praising”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry predicatory (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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