predicant

Example Sentences

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And the good canon predicant would not lie.”

From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de

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

The adverb there would, therefore, be used as a predicant or intransitive verb, and might be conjugated to denote different modes, tenses, numbers, persons, etc.

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

A bishop—not a mere predicant, not a prediger.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor