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English
Adjective
prædicative (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of predicative
1886, Thomas le Marchant Douse, An Introduction, Phonological, Morphological, Syntactic to the Gothic of Ulfilas, Taylor and Francis, page 138:The I-E. Adjective and Substantive were once probably identical; and the former was differentiated from the latter by its gradual appropriation to the discharge of prædicative and attributive functions.
Noun
prædicative (plural prædicatives)
- Obsolete spelling of predicative