Webster's English Dictionary

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predication

pred.i.ca.tion \.pred-*-'ka--sh*n\ n archaic  1a: an act of proclaiming or 
   preaching  1b: SERMON  2: an act or instance of predicating : as  2a: the 
   expression of action, state, or quality by a grammatical predicate  2b: the 
   logical affirmation of something about another; esp : assig nment of 
   something to a class