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prɪˈdɪkəm(ə)nt/
n.
- a difficult situation.
- Philosophy each of the ten categories in Aristotelian logic.
Etymology
ME (orig. in sense ‘category’, later ‘state of being’, hence ‘difficult situation’): from late L. praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Gk katēgoria ‘category’), from L. praedicare (see predicate).
