predicantn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈprɛdᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈprɛdək(ə)nt/

Forms: 1500s predycante, 1500s–1600s praedicant, 1500s– predicant.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French predicant; Latin predicant-, predicans, praedicant-, praedicāns.

Etymology: < Middle French predicant preacher, especially a Protestant one (although this is first attested slightly later: 1523; French prédicant ) or its etymon post-classical Latin predicant-, predicans preacher (from 12th cent. in British sources), use as noun of classical Latin praedicant-, praedicāns, present participle (occasionally used as adjective) of praedicāre predicate v. In sense A. 1b after (in quot. a1661 at sense A. 1b perhaps directly < ) Dutch predikant preacher, especially a Protestant one (1512 as predicant; apparently < Middle French prédicant, although this is first attested slightly later). Compare German Prädikant (1522 or earlier), Swedish predikant (1539).

A. n.

a. A preacher; spec. a Dominican friar (now historical). Also in extended use: a moralizer, demagogue, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun]

angelOE

spellera1200

preacher?c1225

sermonerc1325

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predicant?1519

pulpit man1581

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concionator1623

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pulpiter1681

predicatory1686

preacher man1848

preach1955

society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > preaching

predicatorc1460

predicant?1519

pulpit friar1555

?1519 Lytell Treat. Turkes Lawe called Alcaron sig. Aii Whan that the predycante or prechour shal go to preche theyr fals byleue he hath a naked swerde in his hande as longe as his sermon shall endure & last.

1590 Greenwood in L. Bacon Genesis N. Eng. Ch. (1874) 126 These stipendiary, roving predicants.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 53 Ascelline being one of the order of the Prædicants.

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. vi. 34 The difference betweene those three sorts of predicants mentioned by Saint Paul.

1651 J. Jane Εικων Ακλαστος 240 The shopps..are turned to pulpitts, and every Cooper growne a reverend Predicant.

1682 M. Coppinger Poems 72 Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air.

1731 S. Chandler tr. P. van Limborch Hist. Inquisition I. i. x. 60 He [sc. St Dominic] preached, with great Vehemence, against the Hereticks that were arisen there; from whence his Order hath obtained the Name of Preachers, or Predicants.

1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 17 These strolling Predicants have allured some itching ears, and drawn them aside by calumniating their proper Pastors.

1810 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 4 503 A body of Protestant Predicants, not less intolerant in spirit, than their predecessors..in the Romish Church.

1816 T. J. Howell Stranger in Shrewsbury 130 The Dominicans, or Black Friars, were called in some places Jacobins, and in others Predicants.

1939 Conc. Oxf. Dict. Eng. Lit. 186/1 A monk of the order of the Predicants.

1945 O. Benesch Art of Renaissance Northern Europe ii. 25 There were not only the quarrels between the orthodox and the dissenting predicants, but even more radical disturbances.

1997 R. S. Ellwood Fifties Spiritual Marketplace iii. vi. 215 A dialogue between two Huxleys, the likable rational humanist, discoursing pleasantly on art and culture, and the tiresome predicant of Pure Truth and Mind At Large.

b. Chiefly South African = predikant n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > Dutch

predicanta1661

predikant1835

dominee1950

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 45 On the one side, was placed the minister (the predicant).

1820 W. Shaw Jrnl. Sept. in Never a Young Man (1967) 31 The Dutch farmers..always honour me with the appellation which they give their own minister, viz. ‘Predicant’..and many..have expressed to me their thankfulness that they shall now have an opportunity of attending Kerk.

1833 Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. 1 Mar. 37 The predicant, who had unfortunately lent himself to the oppressions of the Company, now plied them with religious advice.

1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 66 Your father, the Predicant, always warned me against trekking north.

1900 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. Dec. 34 Our correspondent states that those who wish to introduce a new article among the Dutch farmers bribe the ‘predicant’, and the thing is mentioned in next Sunday's sermon!

1962 S. W. Taylor tr. P. Zumthor Daily Life Rembrandt's Holland (1963) iii. 82 After a passage from the Bible had been read from the lectern, the predicant mounted the pulpit and began by reading out various announcements.

1989 H. H. Hewison Hedge of Wild Almonds i. 8 12 missionaries.., one of whom, Daniel Lindley, became the beloved predicant of the Voortrekkers.

†2. A person who affirms something. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Predicant, one that affirms anything. [Also in later dictionaries.]

B. adj.

1. Given to, engaged in, or characterized by preaching.Applied chiefly to members of religious orders, esp. the Dominicans (formerly sometimes postpositively, as friar predicant). Cf. preaching friar n. at preaching adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [adjective]

predicatory1611

predicant1629

homilistical1659

predicative1772

predicatorial1772

preacherly1905

1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 62 But may not some predicant Frier,..by preaching, bee a meanes to saue a soule?

1682 M. Coppinger Poems 19 Such is the measure These predicant Fools do get from their Treasure.

1710 J. St. Leger Manager's Pro & Con 76 That Ecclesiastical Incendiary, and predicant Herauld, Doctor Goddard.

1756 J. Marchant Bloody Tribunal 25 In the Year 1255, Alexander IV. at the Request of Lewis, appointed Inquisitors of the Faith in France, and constituted the Prior of the Predicant Friars at Paris Inquisitor over all the Kindom, and County of Thoulouse.

1769 Eng. Displayed II. 259/2 There is..a free school, which, so early as the year 1276, was an house of friars predicant.

1850 W. D. Cooper Hist. Winchelsea 38 There was afterwards added, in the reign of Edw. II, a house of the Dominicans, Black Friars, or Friars Predicant.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 657 The efficacy of a predicant order.

1968 Renaissance Q. 21 309 It suggests in an impressive manner the prominence given to Thomistic teaching by the predicant friars.

1986 BBC Summary World Broadcasts (Nexis) 25 Mar. Minister Adam Lopatka..received in Warsaw on 21st March Father Damian A. Byrne, General Superior of the Predicant Order of Dominican Friars.

†2. Expressing agreement or affirmation. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. s.v Predicant, uttering as an affirmation.

Derivatives

† predicancy n. Obsolete rare the action or practice of preaching.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun]

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1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. ix. 243 That little life of it [sc. rhetoric] which remained, being reserued onely in the predicancie of Postillers.

† predicantess n. Obsolete a female preacher.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > female

predicantess1647

preacheress1649

predicatress1669

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. xvi. 1) A Diaconisse to minister to the sick,..not a prædicantisse, to preach or have Peters keys at her girdle.

1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 219 They were deaconisses, to minister to the sick..not praedicantisses, to preach.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	predicant
释义	predicantn.adj. Brit. /ˈprɛdᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈprɛdək(ə)nt/ Forms: 1500s predycante, 1500s–1600s praedicant, 1500s– predicant. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French predicant; Latin predicant-, predicans, praedicant-, praedicāns. Etymology: < Middle French predicant preacher, especially a Protestant one (although this is first attested slightly later: 1523; French prédicant ) or its etymon post-classical Latin predicant-, predicans preacher (from 12th cent. in British sources), use as noun of classical Latin praedicant-, praedicāns, present participle (occasionally used as adjective) of praedicāre predicate v. In sense A. 1b after (in quot. a1661 at sense A. 1b perhaps directly < ) Dutch predikant preacher, especially a Protestant one (1512 as predicant; apparently < Middle French prédicant, although this is first attested slightly later). Compare German Prädikant (1522 or earlier), Swedish predikant (1539). A. n. 1. a. A preacher; spec. a Dominican friar (now historical). Also in extended use: a moralizer, demagogue, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] angelOE spellera1200 preacher?c1225 sermonerc1325 predicatorc1460 predicant?1519 pulpit man1581 homilist1616 concionator1623 sermonist1630 sermoneera1637 homiliana1641 pulpiteer1643 preachman1647 sermonizer1651 pulpitarian1654 pulpiter1681 predicatory1686 preacher man1848 preach1955 society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > preaching predicatorc1460 predicant?1519 pulpit friar1555 ?1519 Lytell Treat. Turkes Lawe called Alcaron sig. Aii Whan that the predycante or prechour shal go to preche theyr fals byleue he hath a naked swerde in his hande as longe as his sermon shall endure & last. 1590 Greenwood in L. Bacon Genesis N. Eng. Ch. (1874) 126 These stipendiary, roving predicants. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 53 Ascelline being one of the order of the Prædicants. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. vi. 34 The difference betweene those three sorts of predicants mentioned by Saint Paul. 1651 J. Jane Εικων Ακλαστος 240 The shopps..are turned to pulpitts, and every Cooper growne a reverend Predicant. 1682 M. Coppinger Poems 72 Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air. 1731 S. Chandler tr. P. van Limborch Hist. Inquisition I. i. x. 60 He [sc. St Dominic] preached, with great Vehemence, against the Hereticks that were arisen there; from whence his Order hath obtained the Name of Preachers, or Predicants. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 17 These strolling Predicants have allured some itching ears, and drawn them aside by calumniating their proper Pastors. 1810 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 4 503 A body of Protestant Predicants, not less intolerant in spirit, than their predecessors..in the Romish Church. 1816 T. J. Howell Stranger in Shrewsbury 130 The Dominicans, or Black Friars, were called in some places Jacobins, and in others Predicants. 1939 Conc. Oxf. Dict. Eng. Lit. 186/1 A monk of the order of the Predicants. 1945 O. Benesch Art of Renaissance Northern Europe ii. 25 There were not only the quarrels between the orthodox and the dissenting predicants, but even more radical disturbances. 1997 R. S. Ellwood Fifties Spiritual Marketplace iii. vi. 215 A dialogue between two Huxleys, the likable rational humanist, discoursing pleasantly on art and culture, and the tiresome predicant of Pure Truth and Mind At Large. b. Chiefly South African = predikant n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > Dutch predicanta1661 predikant1835 dominee1950 a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 45 On the one side, was placed the minister (the predicant). 1820 W. Shaw Jrnl. Sept. in Never a Young Man (1967) 31 The Dutch farmers..always honour me with the appellation which they give their own minister, viz. ‘Predicant’..and many..have expressed to me their thankfulness that they shall now have an opportunity of attending Kerk. 1833 Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. 1 Mar. 37 The predicant, who had unfortunately lent himself to the oppressions of the Company, now plied them with religious advice. 1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 66 Your father, the Predicant, always warned me against trekking north. 1900 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. Dec. 34 Our correspondent states that those who wish to introduce a new article among the Dutch farmers bribe the ‘predicant’, and the thing is mentioned in next Sunday's sermon! 1962 S. W. Taylor tr. P. Zumthor Daily Life Rembrandt's Holland (1963) iii. 82 After a passage from the Bible had been read from the lectern, the predicant mounted the pulpit and began by reading out various announcements. 1989 H. H. Hewison Hedge of Wild Almonds i. 8 12 missionaries.., one of whom, Daniel Lindley, became the beloved predicant of the Voortrekkers. †2. A person who affirms something. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Predicant, one that affirms anything. [Also in later dictionaries.] B. adj. 1. Given to, engaged in, or characterized by preaching.Applied chiefly to members of religious orders, esp. the Dominicans (formerly sometimes postpositively, as friar predicant). Cf. preaching friar n. at preaching adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [adjective] predicatory1611 predicant1629 homilistical1659 predicative1772 predicatorial1772 preacherly1905 1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 62 But may not some predicant Frier,..by preaching, bee a meanes to saue a soule? 1682 M. Coppinger Poems 19 Such is the measure These predicant Fools do get from their Treasure. 1710 J. St. Leger Manager's Pro & Con 76 That Ecclesiastical Incendiary, and predicant Herauld, Doctor Goddard. 1756 J. Marchant Bloody Tribunal 25 In the Year 1255, Alexander IV. at the Request of Lewis, appointed Inquisitors of the Faith in France, and constituted the Prior of the Predicant Friars at Paris Inquisitor over all the Kindom, and County of Thoulouse. 1769 Eng. Displayed II. 259/2 There is..a free school, which, so early as the year 1276, was an house of friars predicant. 1850 W. D. Cooper Hist. Winchelsea 38 There was afterwards added, in the reign of Edw. II, a house of the Dominicans, Black Friars, or Friars Predicant. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 657 The efficacy of a predicant order. 1968 Renaissance Q. 21 309 It suggests in an impressive manner the prominence given to Thomistic teaching by the predicant friars. 1986 BBC Summary World Broadcasts (Nexis) 25 Mar. Minister Adam Lopatka..received in Warsaw on 21st March Father Damian A. Byrne, General Superior of the Predicant Order of Dominican Friars. †2. Expressing agreement or affirmation. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. s.v Predicant, uttering as an affirmation. Derivatives † predicancy n. Obsolete rare the action or practice of preaching. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] bodingc1000 preachinga1300 sermoninga1300 predicationa1325 preachmentc1330 prophesyingc1520 pulpitingc1540 doctrine1560 prophesying1574 prophecy1577 desk1581 pulpitry1606 predicancy1627 prophecy1631 sermonizing1635 pulpitizing1651 predicament1765 preachery1828 sermonology1854 parsonizing1864 kerygma1889 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. ix. 243 That little life of it [sc. rhetoric] which remained, being reserued onely in the predicancie of Postillers. † predicantess n. Obsolete a female preacher. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > female predicantess1647 preacheress1649 predicatress1669 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. xvi. 1) A Diaconisse to minister to the sick,..not a prædicantisse, to preach or have Peters keys at her girdle. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 219 They were deaconisses, to minister to the sick..not praedicantisses, to preach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?1519
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