Definition of "predication" [pred•i•ca•tion]

• A proclamation, announcement or preaching (noun)
• An assertion or affirmation (noun)
• A self-evident postulate (noun)
• The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated (noun)

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• "_predication_; and, as all beliefs express ideas of relation, we may say that the sign of predication is the verbal symbol of a feeling of relation."
• "My predication is that this case will be fast-tracked up to the SCOTUS."
• "As Homi K. Bhabha has argued, the stereotype, as a structure of predication, is fraught with contradiction: on the one hand, it is supposed to articulate a naturalized, self-evident truth, something that "goes without saying"; and yet, the fact that the stereotype depends upon continual reiteration (as in Bromion's repeated reference to Oothoon's harlotry) suggests that its authority is always less than comfortably stable."