Verb
1. make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition;
"The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"2. affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;
"The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"3. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;
"solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"