Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Predicating or affirming.
  • Preaching.
  • noun One who affirms anything.
  • noun One who preaches; specifically, a preaching friar; a black friar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching.
  • noun One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That predicates
  • adjective That preaches
  • noun Someone who predicates
  • noun Someone who preaches, especially a Dominican friar

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Examples

  • For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • In the same predicant tone, he lauded the medical virtues and the mystical powers of every article he sold.

    The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912

  • "My dear young lady," he remonstrated, "can you blame me for the unwise, indiscreet utterances of every Dutch predicant who opens his mouth?"

    The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897

  • The only other person of importance in the town was a worthy predicant, who evidently had not had his hair cut since the commencement of the War, and who had great difficulty in keeping his little black wide-awake on his head.

    My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892

  • At length came the eve of the wedding day and with it the _predicant_, who arrived hungry and thirsty but running over with smiles and blessings.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Luckily, the _predicant_ took no notice of this incident, for he was thinking about himself as he was too prone to do.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "Without doubt the death is as good as another," I answered; "not that I would choose it, for I wish to die in my bed with the _predicant_ saying prayers over me, and my husband weeping -- or pretending to -- at the foot of it."

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • To begin with, the _predicant_ was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Also my quarrel with the _predicant_ had put me out of temper.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • And, indeed, it did come to his ears, though how to this hour I do not know, unless, in spite of our warning, the _predicant_ who was to perform the ceremony, a good and easy man but one who loved gossip, blabbed of it on his journey to the farm, for he had a two days 'ride to reach it.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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