Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRED'I-CA-BLE, a. [L. prædicabilis, from prædico, to affirm; præ 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.