To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.
Hopefully; a self-directive to undertake the customary action to ward off bad luck.
To assume or suppose; to infer.
To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
An operator or function that returns either true or false.
The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
Predicated, stated.
Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.