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PREDICAMENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 276 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PREDICAMENT , now used only in the sense of a dangerous or unpleasant position or situation. It meant properly that which is " predicated " or affirmed (See also:

Lat. praedicare) of anything, in See also:logic, one of the ten Aristotelian categories (see See also:CATEGORY), and so any definite See also:state or See also:condition.

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