Predicables are certaine degrees, or rather petigrees of words that be of one affinitie, shewing which comprehend more, and which comprehend lesse.
There be fiue, that is to say, Genus, Species, Differentia, Propri∣um, & Accidens: which may be Englished thus, Generall kinde, Speciall kind, Difference, Propertie, and Accident. But we thinke it best to begin first with Species, because it is next to Indiuiduum.