predicant

Example Sentences

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I remember Suzanne standing before the little table, behind which was the predicant with his book.

From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider

A bishop—not a mere predicant, not a prediger.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

In the same predicant tone, he lauded the medical virtues and the mystical powers of every article he sold.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)

In most Indian tongues no pure predicant has been differentiated, but in some the verb to be, or predicant, has been slightly developed, chiefly to affirm, existence in a place.

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

At the least, he was not at all angry, although he said that I must not mention the business to the predicant, who was well known to be a prejudiced man.

From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider