predicant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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a member of a religious order founded for preaching, esp a Dominican
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a variant spelling of predikant
Etymology
Origin of predicant
1580–90; < Latin praedicant- (stem of praedicāns ), present participle of praedicāre to preach; see -ant
Example Sentences
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A bishop—not a mere predicant, not a prediger.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
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 Henry Rider Haggard
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 John Wesley Powell
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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