ante predicament (an"tepredikament)

[ the first part Aristotle's book on Categories. These ante predicaments are seven, viz., three definitions, two divisions, and two rules. The definitions are of equivocals, univocals, and denominatives. The divisions are of things said into terms and propositions and the eight modes of inherence. The rules are the dictum de omni et nullo (see dictum ), and that which affirms that the differences of different genera are different. The word had been previously applied, in the plural, as a name for Por phyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Categories and the ante pretonic (ante-pre-ton'ik), a. [ doctrine of the predicables therein contained. The ante pretonic open syllable may have either a heavy or a light vowel. Amer . Jour . Philol ., V. 499.