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predicant

American  
[pred-i-kuhnt] / ˈprɛd ɪ kənt /

adjective

  1. preaching.

    a predicant religious order.

noun

  1. a preacher.

predicant British  
/ ˈprɛdɪkənt /

adjective

  1. of or relating to preaching

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noun

  1. a member of a religious order founded for preaching, esp a Dominican

  2. a variant spelling of predikant

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Etymology

Origin of predicant

1580–90; < Latin praedicant- (stem of praedicāns ), present participle of praedicāre to preach; -ant

Example Sentences

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Here the predicant woke up, seeing his chance.

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

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

The predicant simple is a distinct part of speech.

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

It does not seem to me expedient, that any more friars should be sent to the Tartars, in the way I went, or as the predicant friars go.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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