predicant
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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.
Also my quarrel with the predicant had put me out of temper.
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
At the least, he was not at all angry, although he said that I must not mention the business to the predicant, who was well known to be a prejudiced man.
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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