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 Henry Rider Haggard
“But Ou’ Jackalse he ain’t a-seein’ nawtin’ but what she’s yust as glad to see him as if he was a predicant.
From Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan
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
I remember Suzanne standing before the little table, behind which was the predicant with his book.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Henry Rider Haggard
Where in English we would say the man is good, the Indian would say that man good, using the adjective as an intransitive verb, i.e., 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
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