predicable

PRED'ICABLE, a. [L. proedicabilis, from proedico, to affirm; proe and dico, to say.] That may be affirmed of something; that may be attributed to. Animal is predicable of man. Intelligence is not predicable of plants. More or less is not predicable of a circle or of a square. Whiteness is not predicable of time.

PRED'ICABLE, n. One of the five things which can be affirmed of any thing. Genus, species, difference, property, and accident are the five predicables.