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IV., an. 23. If you have gained such a Place among the choicest Friends of mine, I hope you will put me somewhere amongst yours, though I but fetch up the Rear, being contented to be the in firm a [ sic ] species, the lowest in the Predicament of your Friends. Howell , Letters, I. i. 13. Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent To keep in compa of thy predicament . Then quick about thy purposed busine come. Milton , Vacation Exercise, 1. 56. 3. A dangerous or trying situation; an unpleasant position. The offender's life lies in the mercy Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice. In which predicament , I say, thou stand'st. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. 357. IMG:content-0834.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. 3. Position, plight, case. predicamental (pre-dik-a-mental), a . [= Sp. predicamental , prædicamentalis (John of Salisbury), prædicamentum , predicament: see predicament . ] Of or pertaining to predicaments. Old Cybele, the first in all This human predicamental scale. J. Hall , Poems (1646), p. 23. Predicamental quantity, quantity properly so called; quantity in the sense in which it is one of the ten predicaments or categories: opposed to intensive quantity. Predicamental relates, things named by relative terms, so that one has to be connoted in order completely to name the other: opposed to transcendental relates , which are so by their mode of being. predicant (pred ́i-kant), a . and n . [ predi cant , F. prédicant = Sp. It. predicante , prædican (t-) s , ppr. of prædicare , declare, proclaim, LL. and ML. also preach: see predicate . ] I. a . 1. Predicating or affirming.-2. Preaching. In spite of every opposition from the predicant friars and university of Cologne, the barbarous school-books were superseded. Sir W. Hamilton .