dic-, dict- +
(Latin: talk, speak, say, tell, declare; to proclaim)
obiter
1. Primarily in legal contexts: made or said in passing; an incidental remark.
2. Short for obiter dictum.
3. Etymology: from Latin, originally as the phrase ob itur, "by the way".
obiter dictum (s); obiter dicta (pl)
1. In law, an expression of opinion on a matter of law, given by a judge in court in the course of either argument or judgment, but not forming an essential part of the reasons determining the decision, and therefore not of binding authority; hence generally, anything said by the way, an incidental statement or remark.
2. Something said, done, or occurring by the way; an incidental matter.
An incidental remark or opinion by a judge that is not binding on the final decision; a digression; a casually interjected comment or reflection.
Such a thing as issued by a judge means an opinion that may have some influence over the jury and lawyers present, an opinion based on experience and wisdom but that has not been thoroughly researched, is not entered into a judgment, and has no legal force.
preach
1. To deliver a sermon or religious speech to an assembled group of people, typically in a church: "The pastor preached to a large congregation."
2. To proclaim or to teach; such as, a religious message or belief.
3. To earnestly advocate a belief or course of action: "My parents have always preached toleration and moderation in all things."
4. To give moral advice to someone in an annoying or pompously self-righteous way: "The audience wants to be entertained, not to be preached at."
5. Etymology: late Old English predician, a loan word from Church Latin, reborrowed in the 12th century as preachen, from Old French prechier, from Late Latin predicare, "to proclaim publicly, to announce"; from Latin prae-, "forth" + dicare, "to proclaim, to say".
preacher
1. Someone who preaches, or lectures, especially a minister of a religious group.
2. Someone whose occupation is to give sermons, preach the gospel, or conduct religious services; especially, a minister of a Protestant church.
3. Etymology: from Old French precheor, from ecclesiastical Latin praedicator, from the verb praedicare; from prae, "before, forth" + dicare, "to declare, to speak, to say".
preachify, prachifying
1. To preach or to give advice on morality or behavior in an irritatingly tedious or overbearing way.
2. To tediously preach or to moralize; that is, to speak as if delivering a sermon; to express moral judgments.
preachment
Dogmatic instruction and exhortation: "Successful leadership is a process of persuasion rather than preachment."
preachy
Having, or revealing, a tendency to give moral advice in a tedious or self-righteous way.
precondition
1. Something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; a condition: "There was a precondition which must be met before a promotion can take place."
2. To subject (a person or thing) to a special treatment in preparation for a subsequent experience, process, test, etc.: "He had to precondition the surface before starting the final painting."
preconditioning
The creation of a condition, or state, in which a stimulus applied later will incur a certain response.
predicable
1. One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in Aristotelian logical arrangements, namely: genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
2. That which can be stated or that can be said about someone or something.
3. A quality or attribute by which someone or something can be described.
predicament
1. State of being; condition, situation, position; especially, an unpleasant, trying, or dangerous situation.
2. Implies a complicated, perplexing situation from which it is difficult to disentangle oneself.
predicant
1. Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; characterized by preaching.
2. Someone who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican.
predicate
1. The statement made about a subject, including the logical copula (which in a verb is expressed by the personal suffix).
Sometimes restricted to the main verb and its object or complement, to the exclusion of any adjunct. Also in logic and math; frequently in a wider use, an assertion or relation having one or more terms unspecified.
2. An appellation or title that asserts something.
3. To assert, affirm; to make a statement.
4. To state or assert (something) about the subject of a proposition; also, to make (a term) the predicate in a proposition.
predicate, predicate, predict, predictive
predicate (PRED i kayt")
To state or to affirm as an attribute or quality of something: "The preacher's sermon made efforts to predicate that people who follow the teachings of Christ are true Christians."
"He tends to predicate his theories on faulty assumptions."
predicate (PRED i kit")
The part of a sentence that expresses what is said about the subject: "In the sentence,
The child threw the ball, the subject is
The child and the predicate is
threw the ball."
"Sentences normally have two basic parts, a subject and a predicate."
"The simple subject is the principal noun or pronoun that tells what a sentence is about; while, the simple predicate is the verb or verb phrase that tells something about the subject"; for example, "Penguins dive."
In most sentences, the meaning of the simple subject and the simple predicate is expanded or modified by the addition of other words and phrases. The complete subject consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it while the complete predicate consists of the simple predicate and all the words that modify or complete it; for example: "The penguins of Antarctica dive hundreds of feet."
A compound predicate has two or more verbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conjunction and have the same subject or subjects: "Diane and Jim will wash the dishes, mop the floor, and cook dinner."
predict (pri DIKT)
To foretell a future event based on reason or experience: "The meteorologist's job is to predict the weather to the best of his ability using weather maps, etc."
predictive (pri DIK tiv)
Characteristics that foretell a situation: "High blood pressure could be a strong predictive of future heart problems."
predication
1. A declaration of something that is self-evident.
2. Something which can be assumed to be the basis for an argument.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
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