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; -ant
Example Sentences
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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
Also my quarrel with the predicant had put me out of temper.
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
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
Soon after her death, which occurred in 1277, a Latin translation was made by a predicant friar at Cologne, known as Brother Henry.
From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of
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