predicant

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The adverb there would, therefore, be used as a predicant or intransitive verb, and might be conjugated to denote different modes, tenses, numbers, persons, etc.

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

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

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

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

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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