predicant
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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
“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 the same predicant tone, he lauded the medical virtues and the mystical powers of every article he sold.
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía
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
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
