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Praisable
- - Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable.
Precative
- adjective - expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
Precieuse
- - An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century. See aslo preciosity.
Precipice
- noun - a very steep cliff
Precisive
- - Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
Preconize
- - To approve by preconization.
Predicate
- noun - (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
Preengage
- - To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.