predicant
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With adjectives and nouns this verb 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 Powell, John Wesley
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.
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 Haggard, Henry Rider
Also my quarrel with the predicant had put me out of temper.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider
Thou art turned now into a predicant friar.
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)