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predicator|ˈprɛdɪkeɪtə(r)|
[Early mod.E. predycatour, a. OF. predicatour (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), in 16th c. prédicateur, ad. L. prædicātor a proclaimer, praiser in public; in late and med.L. a preacher; agent-n. f. prædicāre to predicate.]
One who or that which predicates. a. spec. A preacher; a preaching friar. Now rare.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 431/2 The freres predycatours and mynours. 1483― G. de la Tour cxxix, As the clerkes say, and the predycatours. 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 123 A Monastery of Friers, of the order of the Predicators. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 470 Two Iesuites, one of which was Predicator, and Superiour Tiatinean Colledge. 1820J. Cleland Rise & Progr. Glasgow 21 A tenement lying on the north side of the church and convent of the Predicators. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. iv. (1847) 41 The first predicators of the gospel may..have unfolded its saving truths in the vicinity of Glastonbury.
b. One who asserts, an assertor. rare.
1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 9 Our modern assertors and predicators.
c. (See quot. 1899)
1899R. C. Temple Univ. Gram. 36 Functionally a word is either..An integer, or a sentence in itself... An indicator... An explicator... A predicator, or indicative of [the] predicate [of a sentence]. 1958[see predicatival a.]. 1961[see complement n. 3 b]. 1966Amer. Speech XLI. 204 All of the clauses here termed ‘imperative’ have as predicators verb forms which we can describe as present-tense subjunctives. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 10 The elements of clause structure in English are:..P: Predicator (traditionally ‘verb’, but this term is needed for a class of word). 1969Eng. Stud. L. 32 Clauses without a Predicator..can assume the status of independent clauses.
Hence ˈprediˌcatress, rare, a female preacher.
1669Mrs. Blomer in Fox Bourne Locke (1876) I. v. 254 The impudence of the female predicatress. |