predicant
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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
Luckily, the predicant took no notice of this incident, for he was thinking about himself as he was too prone to do.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Henry Rider Haggard
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
And the good canon predicant would not lie.”
From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
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 Matilda of Magdeburg
