predicant
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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 Henry Rider Haggard
In the same predicant tone, he lauded the medical virtues and the mystical powers of every article he sold.
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía
And the good canon predicant would not lie.”
From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
In most Indian tongues no pure predicant has been differentiated, but in some the verb to be, or predicant, has been slightly developed, chiefly to affirm, existence in a place.
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
It may be remarked, not only from this example, but from general study, that the verb "to be" as a copula or predicant does not have any place in sign language.
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