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 Munguía, E. (Enrique)

In general their name-words predicate some attribute of the object named, and thus noun, adjective, and predicant are undifferentiated.

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

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

A friar of the Dominican order; Ð called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah