predicant
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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
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
A bishop—not a mere predicant, not a prediger.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And the good canon predicant would not lie.”
From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
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 John Wesley Powell
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