indicant

English

Etymology

From Latin indicans.

Adjective

indicant (not comparable)

1. indicative; that points out.
   • 2009, Paul L. Heck, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism:

     The ability to suffer patiently, then, is indicant of spiritual maturity

Noun

indicant (plural indicants)

1. Something which indicates or points out; an indicator
   • 1910, Edwin Balmer, The Science of Advertising:

     Yet in spite of the essential crudity of this advertising, it had very early developed the value of the trademark as an indicant of quality in the product to which it was attached.

   • 1927, Willard Huntington Wright, The "Canary" Murder Case/Chapter 11, Chapter 11:

     "A number of things—his gratuitous and obviously mendacious statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly insincere homily on the sacredness of professional confidences; the cautious and Pecksniffian confession of his fatherly regard for the girl; his elaborate struggle to remember when he had last seen her—this particularly, I think, made me suspicious; and then, the psychopathic indicants of his physiognomy."

References

• “indicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Verb

indicant

1. gerund of indicar

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb indicō (“indicate”).

Verb

indicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of indicō

Etymology 2

Form of the verb indīcō (“declare”).

Verb

indīcant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of indīcō