predicant
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For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
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 John Wesley Powell
The loose leaves had been first collected by another Brother Henry, also a predicant friar.
From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Matilda of Magdeburg
Here the predicant woke up, seeing his chance.
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
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