predication

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The Word of the Day for May 26 is:

predication   \pred-uh-KAY-shun\   noun
     : an act or instance of predicating

Example sentence: 
     Without adequate predication for continuing the investigation, law 
enforcement officials were forced to drop it.

Did you know?
          The verb "predicate" means, among other things, "to found or base" or 
"to imply." The sense of "predication" used in the example sentence is a 
well-established one: "foundation" or "base." "Predication" can also mean 
"implication," but be careful about using it to mean "prediction" -- that use 
does appear in published sources sometimes, but it's an easy target for usage 
commentators, who are bound to consider it an all-too-predictable error. In 
addition, two other well-established meanings of "predication" are "the 
expression of action, state, or quality by a grammatical predicate" and "the 
logical affirmation of something about another."