precant

plural precants

1. obsoleterarelifestyleA person who prays.

   The attempt to answer this argument by admitting its invalidity relatively to God, but asserting the efficacy of prayer relatively to the pray-er or precant himself, is merely staving off the objection a single step.

   1854, “Notes on Luther's table talk”, in Professor Shedd, editor, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 5

   Synonyms: worshipper