predicant
Example Sentences
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“But Ou’ Jackalse he ain’t a-seein’ nawtin’ but what she’s yust as glad to see him as if he was a predicant.
From Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan
For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
A bishop—not a mere predicant, not a prediger.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where in English we would say the man is good, the Indian would say that man good, using the adjective as an intransitive verb, i.e., as a predicant.
From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by John Wesley Powell
It does not seem to me expedient, that any more friars should be sent to the Tartars, in the way I went, or as the predicant friars go.
