predicant
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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
Luckily, the predicant took no notice of this incident, for he was thinking about himself as he was too prone to do.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
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
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
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.
