predicant

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  1. Predicating or affirming.
  2. Preaching. In spite of every opposition from the predicant friars and university of Cologne, the barbarous school-books were superseded. Sir W. Hamilton.
  3. One who affirms anything.

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  1. from Old French predicant, French prédicant = Spanish Italian predicante, from Latin prædican(t-)s, present participle of prædicare, declare, proclaim, Late Latin and Middle Latin also preach: see predicate.
 

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