Logic. [ad. Gr. κατηγόρημα accusation, (in logic) predicate, f. κατηγορεῖν to speak against, accuse, allege, assert, predicate; cf. κατήγορ-ος accuser, etc., f. κατά against + ἀγορά assembly, place of public speaking; cf. ἀγορεύ-ειν to speak in public, harangue.]
† a. = PREDICATE (obs.). b. A categorematic word.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Logike, I. ii. 10 b. These generall heades of argumentes … sometimes they are called Categoremes.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), VIII. Zeno, xx. 43. Universally negative axioms are those, which consist of an universall negative particle, and a Categorem; as, No man walketh.
1864. Shedden, Elem. Logic, ii. Names are called categorematic words, or categorems.
