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Predicant vs Predicand - What's the difference?

predicant | predicand |

As nouns the difference between predicant and predicand

is that predicant is protestant preacher while predicand is (grammar) what a predicate relates to (usually the subject of a clause).

As an adjective predicant

is predicant, preaching.

predicant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming.
  • (by extension) preaching
  • * N. Brit. Rev.
    • The Roman predicant orders.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who predicates
  • Someone who preaches, especially a Dominican friar

    • predicand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) What a predicate relates to (usually the subject of a clause).
    • In, "''downhearted, he left,''" the predicand for ''downhearted'' is ''he'' (i.e. he was downhearted).

    References

    * Huddleston & Pullum. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.