单词 | predicator |
释义 | predicatorn. 1. a. A preacher; spec. a Dominican friar. Cf. predicant n. 1. Now rare. 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 c1460 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Royal 17 D.xv) (1940) 189 Predicator [c1405 Hengwrt He was a prykasour aryght]. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431/2 The freres predycatours and mynours. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxxix. 171 As the clerkes say and the predycatours. 1582 R. Hakluyt tr. G. B. Ramusio in Diuers Voy. sig. C*3 A monastery of Fryers of the order of the Predicators. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) 23b Quhen the ordouris of Freris Predicatouris & of the trinitie war fundit. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 470 Two Iesuites, one of which was Predicator, and Superiour Tiatinean Colledge. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. xx. 32 Two Monks of the order of the Predicators, who, though they were not of the same Country, yet were most like one to the other. 1701 R. Kingston Life W. Fuller ii. 2 Good kind hearted Mr. Humphreys, as sober a Non-con Predicator as ever beat Cushion. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. Pref. 10 Tell me, I say, what reason there is..why my imagination should not divert itself in fabricating a little, tight, brisk, well-shaven predicator? 1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) iv. 41 The first predicators of the gospel may..have unfolded its saving truths in the vicinity of Glastonbury. 1888 Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. IV. 569/2 On his return to Europe in 1769 he became predicator of Marienborn. 2002 M. Broers Politics of Religion Napoleonic Italy v. 135 They were welcome as parish clergy, but not as predicators, where many bishops felt their services were most needed. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > one who affirmera1425 asserterc1449 protestor?1548 affirmant?1567 avoucher1570 protester1591 assertor1646 predicator1694 allegator1847 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 7 Our Modern Assertors, and Predicators. 2. Grammar. The part of a clause or sentence (typically a verb) that introduces a predicate. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > predicator predicator1899 1899 R. 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 A. A. Hill Introd. Ling. Struct. xvi. 274 A verb consisting of an -ing form..will be defined as a predicatival rather than as a predicator. 1969 Eng. Stud. 50 32 Clauses without a Predicator..can assume the status of independent clauses. 1992 I. A. E. Cunningham Syntactic Anal. of Sea Island Creole 62 The negator don't may directly precede all predicators (with the exception of those followed by the progressive aspect affix, -ing). DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > female predicantess1647 preacheress1649 predicatress1669 1669 Mrs. Blomer Let. 24 Jan. in H. R. F. Bourne Locke (1876) I. v. 254 The impudence of the female predicatress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1460 |
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