 Perhaps the term with the most varied history is ‘appellatio’, though even so, one can discern a common thread running through it. It starts, we saw, as an equivalent of ‘nominatio’ in Anselm and Abelard, and by the thirteenth century is used to pick out the present extension of a term, that of which it can be truly predicated in the present tense: “So now one should know that appellation is spoken of in four ways … In the fourth way, appellation is said to be the acceptance of a term for a suppositum or supposita existing actually, and our present focus is on appellation spoken of in this fourth way” (Lambert, tr. Maloney pp.  261–2).[34]  In Burley, at the turn of the fourteenth century, it almost usurps the place of ‘copulatio’, being for him the relation of the predicate to its inferiors: “Thus, just as supposition taken strictly is a property of the subject insofar as it is matched with the predicate, so appellation is a property of the predicate matched with the subject or with an inferior” (tr. Spade p.  131).[35]  There are shades too, of Abelard: “a univocal general term appellates its inferiors but does not signify  them”.[36]  But the crucial phrase which runs through the history of the term appears here too: “the predicate appellates its form” (De Puritate, p. 48: “praedicatum appellat suam formam”). What he says he means by this is that the predicate be truly predicable at some time, in the present tense, of the supposita of the subject.