predicamentaladj.

c1600 [implied in: Timon (1980) v. iv. 80 Wee say thou art an asse transcendentallie, not prædicamentally. (at predicamentally adv.)].

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 89 They haue..no predicamentall, but an intelligible quantity.

1647 J. Hall Poems 23 Old Cybele the first in all This humane predicamentall Scale, Why would she choose her Priests to be Such Individuums as ye?

1681 R. Wittie Οὐρανοσκοπια 38 God is an infinite Essence that highly transcends all Predicamental Notions.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 5 The whole Predicamental Climax, or different Gradations of Beings, Persons, Times and Places.

1794 J. Stewart Good Sense 62 I have..laboured to discriminate predicamental from perfectable good; or, in other words, good relative to present condition, and good relative to improveable condition.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. vi. §4 From the main trunk of the Predicamental Tree, which included nothing but what was of the essence of the species.

1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. 86 Every attempt at unitary deduction of a universe by predicamental logic.

1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress ii. 43 Herein your ladyship, grounding yourself at first unassailably upon most predicamental and categoric arguments in celarent, next propounded me a syllogism in barbara.

1991 R. Cessario Moral Virtues & Theological Ethics iii. 55 Those who follow the school of Duns Scotus define virtue in terms of a predicamental relation. They teach that any action enjoys the potential for qualifying as virtuous on the condition that it conforms to some accepted rule of conduct.