predicant

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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

In what is sometimes called the progressive form of the active voice nouns and adjectives are differentiated in the participles, and the verb "to be" is used 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 Powell, John Wesley

At length came the eve of the wedding day and with it the predicant, who arrived hungry and thirsty but running over with smiles and blessings.

From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider

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 Munguía, E. (Enrique)

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