19 collocations for predicates

To predicate happiness of a class of beings, placed in circumstances where their will is everlastingly defeated by an irresistible powerthe abolitionists say, is to prove them destitute of the sympathies of our naturenot human.

Afterwards, in spite of the fancied limitation, he acknowledges the passive use of the participle in ing, and that there is "authority" for it; but, at the same time, most absurdly supposes the word to predicate "action," and also to be wrong: saying, "Action is sometimes predicated of a passive subject.

"I predicate my argument on universal experience."

But they are out of our field: genius predicates at least an intact brain.

" These remarks, it is true, refer to the lower Congo, and it is only of the upper river that Johnston predicates the poetic features which ennoble love.

But it is much more unreasonable to predicate fragility, difficulty, or anything else of a particular form of government, without reference to other conditions which happen to go along with it in a given society at a given time.

Surely not; for we can predicate neither good nor evil by the Truth in question.

All life predicates growth.

Nor would it be straining the point, nor be dealing in poetical fancies, if we should predicate upon the introduction of the English lark into American society a supplementary influence much needed to unify and nationalise the heterogeneous elements of our population.

The Bromide we have always with us, predicating the obvious.

In a word, they all think and talk alikeone may predicate their opinion upon any given subject.

The undersigned, therefore, can not discover in the facts and circumstances of the case any just principles upon which Sir Howard Douglas could predicate his protest.

His eyes rested amorously upon her; for 'twas naught but strong, healthful youth could predicate such reply and vouch for its assertion by such rich colouring of cheek, such rare sparkling of eyes and such ripeness of lips.

Doubtless, a man often asserts of an entire class what is only true of a part of it; but his error generally consists not in making too wide an assertion, but in making the wrong kind of assertion: he predicated an actual result, when he should only have predicated a tendency to that resulta power acting with a certain intensity in that direction.

His eyes rested amorously upon her; for 'twas naught but strong, healthful youth could predicate such reply and vouch for its assertion by such rich colouring of cheek, such rare sparkling of eyes and such ripeness of lips.

Without undue vanity, it is tolerably safe to say now that he was authorized by the existing state of things to confidently predicate his own success on these estimates.

Doubtless, a man often asserts of an entire class what is only true of a part of it; but his error generally consists not in making too wide an assertion, but in making the wrong kind of assertion: he predicated an actual result, when he should only have predicated a tendency to that resulta power acting with a certain intensity in that direction.

But it is unsafe to predicate the person's acquaintance with the shades and phases of the idea, or with the corresponding discriminations in language.

The absence of furniture predicates a dangerous want of capital to the discreet landlady.

19 collocations for  predicates