predicant

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"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

To begin with, the predicant was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with.

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

At length came the eve of the wedding day and with it the predicant, who arrived hungry and thirsty but running over with smiles and blessings.

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