predicant
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In general their name-words predicate some attribute of the object named, and thus noun, adjective, and predicant are undifferentiated.
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 Powell, John Wesley
The loose leaves had been first collected by another Brother Henry, also a predicant friar.
From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of
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 Powell, John Wesley
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.
And the good canon predicant would not lie.”
From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de
