predicant

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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 Emerson, Edwin

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

The predicant simple is a distinct part of speech.

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

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

“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 Vaughan, Arthur Owen