predicatory

adjective2

1. •
   affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications.

   • Hex's sermon clearly shows a lack of predicatory features, although, according to the colophon, the preacher himself wrote it. — 2004
2. •
   Forming an ontologically neutral predicate; implying no new information or qualities.

   • In a 'predicatory' sense, whatever we say in our natural language about an object defines a property: an object has the property of being such that 'x'.· — 2022