predicant

Example Sentences

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Here the predicant woke up, seeing his chance.

From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider

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 Powell, John Wesley

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 Haggard, Henry Rider

And the good canon predicant would not lie.”

From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de

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 Powell, John Wesley