Anagrams of: DEPRECATING

• existing or coming before

• of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office

• of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees

• floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

• (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula

• one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

• make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition

• affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

• involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

• Someone who predicates

• Someone who preaches, especially a Dominican friar

• Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming.

• (by extension) preaching

• To apprentice.

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• worn and broken down by hard use

• lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality