Definition of Predicant

1. a. Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching.

2. n. One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican.

Definition of Predicant

1. Adjective. That predicates ¹

2. Adjective. That preaches ¹

3. Noun. Someone who predicates ¹

4. Noun. Someone who preaches, especially a Dominican friar ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predicant

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicant

predialed
predialing
predialled
predialling
predials
predialysis
prediastolic
predicability
predicable
predicables
predicably
predicament
predicamental
predicaments
predicand
predicant (current term)
predicants
predicate
predicate calculus
predicate logic
predicated
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predicating
predication
predications
predicative
predicative adjective
predicative adjectives
predicative case
predicative cases

Literary usage of Predicant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of the French and English Languages by Gabriel Surenne (1856)
"adj. predicable Predicament, s. état, genre, m. predicant, s. prédicateur, пъ Predicate, s. prédicat, attribut, m. Prédication, s. prédication, publication, ..."

2. British Guiana Boundary: Arbitration with the United States of Venezuela by Great Britain (1898)
"Hr. predicant bate ... Heer predicant, die naar middags weder naar bun woningen. ... naar d'woning vanden heer predicant vaaren, ..."

3. The Book of Perth: An Illustration of the Moral and Ecclesiastical State of by John Parker Lawson (1847)
"In testimony of which, his seal is appended, together with the seals of Friar Adam de Brechin, Reader of the Order of the foresaid predicant Friars of the ..."

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