predicatory

adj

1. affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications.

   “The just degrees of callings must be herein duly observed; whether in a public way, as pastors of congregations ; or in a private way , as masters of families : whether in the schools , in a mere grammatical way ; or in the church , in a predicatory”

   “Hex's sermon clearly shows a lack of predicatory features, although, according to the colophon, the preacher himself wrote it.”

   “The revelation monologue Trimorphic Protennoia (NHC XIII 1) takes the form of a first-person self-predicatory aretalogy (“I am X,” “I am Y”) or recitation of the deeds and attributes of Protennoia-Barbelo, the First Thought of the Sethian supreme deity.”

2. Forming an ontologically neutral predicate; implying no new information or qualities.

   “In a 'predicatory' sense, whatever we say in our natural language about an object defines a property: an object has the property of being such that 'x'.·”

   “In Bird's (2016, 2018) phrasing, we understand dispositions as 'predicatory' properties, to which we are 'ontologically uncommitted' , imbuing them with 'no metaphysical baggage'.”