predicant
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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 John Wesley Powell
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 John Wesley Powell
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.
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 Henry Rider Haggard
A friar of the Dominican order; Ð called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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