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especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition. "O woeful sympathy; piteous predicament!" Shak.

Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall (1646).

Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching. "The Roman predicant orders." N. Brit. Rev.

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion. Locke.

Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term. -- Pred"i*ca*tive*ly, adv.

Affirmative; positive. Bp. Hall.

n a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave. The predicrotic or tidal wave is best marked in a hard pulse, i. e., where the blood pressure is high. Landois & Stirling.

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

That may be predicted.

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon.

Prophetic; prognostic. [R.]

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

One who predicts; a foreteller.

Predictive. [R.] Fuller.

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion.

To elect or choose beforehand. [R.] Walter Harte.

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.

To discover beforehand.