'Predicant' definitions:
Definition of 'Predicant'
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- Predicant \Pred"i*cant\, a. [L. praedicans, -antis, p. pr. of praedicare. See Predicate.] Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching. "The Roman predicant orders." --N. Brit. Rev. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Predicant'
From: GCIDE
- Predicant \Pred"i*cant\, n. One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'predicant'
From: GCIDE
- Blackfriar \Black"fri`ar\, Black friar \Black" fri`ar\(bl[a^]k"fr[imac]`[~e]r). (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
- Syn: Dominican. [1913 Webster]