predicant

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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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Thou art turned now into a predicant friar.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

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

Also my quarrel with the predicant had put me out of temper.

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

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