predicant
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A friar of the Dominican order; Ð called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
In what is sometimes called the progressive form of the active voice nouns and adjectives are differentiated in the participles, and the verb "to be" is used 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 John Wesley Powell
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 Henry Rider Haggard
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 Henry Rider Haggard
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 John Wesley Powell
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