predicant

Example Sentences

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“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

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

Again, adjectives are used as intransitive verbs, as in most Indian languages there is no verb to be used as a predicant or copula.

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

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

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

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