"But Ou' Jackalse he ain't a-seein' nawtin' but what she's yust as glad to see him as if he was a Predicant.
"Old Hendrik's Tales"
Arthur Owen Vaughan
And the good canon Predicant would not lie.
"Flemish Legends"
Charles de Coster
The only other person of importance in the town was a worthy Predicant, who evidently had not had his hair cut since the commencement of the War, and who had great difficulty in keeping his little black wide-awake on his head.
"My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War"
Ben Viljoen