Postulant Definition

pŏschə-lənt
postulants
noun
A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.
American Heritage
A petitioner or candidate, esp. one for admission into a religious order.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Postulant

Noun

Singular:
postulant
Plural:
postulants

Origin of Postulant

  • French from Old French from Latin postulāns postulant- present participle of postulāre to request postulate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French postulant, present participle of postuler.

    From Wiktionary

Postulant Sentence Examples

  • No one can become a postulant for admission to the Society until fourteen years old, unless by special dispensation.

  • During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken of now as the "Seeker," now as the "Sufferer," and now as the "Postulant," to the accompaniment of various knockings with mallets and swords.

  • It is so Christian in tone, he quaintly remarks elsewhere, that an inquisitor might have used it quite as well as a heretic. In it the Perfect addresses the postulant, as in the corresponding Armenian rite, by the name of Peter; and explains to him from Scripture the indwelling of the spirit in the Perfect, and his adoption as a son by God.

  • Next followed the spiritual baptism itself, consisting of imposition of hands, and holding of the Gospel on the postulant's head.

  • After studying for ordination and serving a curacy, Francis became a postulant in Father Algy's group of Franciscans at St Ives.

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