predicant
Example Sentences
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Also my quarrel with the predicant had put me out of temper.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
"My dear young lady," he remonstrated, "can you blame me for the unwise, indiscreet utterances of every Dutch predicant who opens his mouth?"
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude
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.
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
In general their name-words predicate some attribute of the object named, and thus noun, adjective, and predicant are undifferentiated.
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
