predicant

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For shortly after the date of this story, in the early part of the fourteenth century, it is said that of every three Predicant Friars, two were Bonihomines.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah

“Will my Lord allow me to alter the figure he has chosen?” said the Predicant Friar.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah

The Predicant Friars were an offshoot of the Dominican Order; and the Boni-Homines were a special division of the Predicant Friars.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah

Then, there came often Predicant, or Barefooted friars, from the Scottish Monarch, to King Haco, to sound him about a pacification between the two Sovereigns.

From The Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland, A.D. MCCLXIII. by Johnstone, James Johnstone, chevalier de

“Some children,” said the Predicant Friar, with a tender intonation.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah