predicant
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Here the predicant woke up, seeing his chance.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
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
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 Haggard, Henry Rider
To begin with, the predicant was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
"My dear young lady," he remonstrated, "can you blame me for the unwise, indiscreet utterances of every Dutch predicant who opens his mouth?"
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude