‖ predikant
(prɛdɪˈkant)
Also predicant.
[Du.: see predicant.]
A minister of the Dutch Protestant church, esp. in South Africa.
| [1634 Brereton Trav. Holland, etc. 45 On the one side, was placed the minister (the predicant).] 1849 R. Moffat in Daily News 24 Feb. (1900) 6/1 They have a measure of religious knowledge culled from the Bible and their itinerant predikants. 1889 Rider Haggard Allan's Wife 66 Your father, the Predicant, always warned me against trekking north. 1905 Athenæum 25 Feb. 234/2 The first of a succession of predikants at Tuticorin [Southern India] was the noted ex-Roman Catholic priest, and subsequent translator of..the Bible into Portuguese, Joāo Ferreira d'Almeida. |