Definition of "predication"

predication

noun
countable and uncountable, plural predications
1. A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
2. An assertion or affirmation.
  Quotations
  It can be immediately observed from these sentences that the English subject of a predication is translated in Japanese with a wa-phrase, while the subject of a nonpredicational description appears as a ga-phrase.
  1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT‎, retrieved 2014-02-24
3. (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
4. (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.