predicant
Example Sentences
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What I answered I cannot recollect, but even now I seem to see that predicant flying out of the door of the room holding his hands above his head.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
To begin with, the predicant was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
With adjectives and nouns this verb is used 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
And the good canon predicant would not lie.”
From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de
It may be remarked, not only from this example, but from general study, that the verb "to be" as a copula or predicant does not have any place in sign language.
