Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.
- n. A candidate for admission into a religious order.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A person seeking admission to a religious order
- n. A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which postulates, demands, or asks; specifically, a candidate for membership in a religious order during the period preparatory to his admission into the novitiate; in the American Episcopal Church, an applicant for admission to candidateship for the ministry, not yet received as candidate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
Etymologies
Examples
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The fact that there is no such law is itself the reason why neither a man nor a woman is permitted nowadays to take permanent vows until after a considerable period of probation, first as a 'postulant' and then as a novice.
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The attractionThat desire is what drew first-year postulant Sister Zandra Man into the order.
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She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
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Marla Mindelle plays the postulant who is supposed to wow us with her voice, but she too sounds pinched in the upper register, so you can never relax during her big solo number "The Life I Never Led."
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Born Yesterday" Surprises; "Sister Act" Begs Your Indulgence
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In Tibet, law of the monastery proclaims that postulant monks shall seek admission only in their respective monastic sections.
Contemporary Scholars - The 100th Ganden Tripa (Ganden Throneholder)
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When she recovers her health, Catherine will return to the novitiate in Connecticut and resume her role as a postulant.
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Marc was accepted as a postulant, and was going to join the Maine, NY friary in August.
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Our friend George took a postulant 666 brand to the forehead and was forced to subsist on protein cakes made from the corpses of other tardy believers.
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The superior at Godric's Ford first, and the prioress of Polesworth after, however astonished they might have been at being confronted with such a postulant, must have seen something in Avice of Thornbury well worth acquiring for the order.
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And her enforced guests in their twin cots in one cell were quiet and private together, and even Melicent, now a lay guest of the house and no postulant, went about the business of the day with a pure, still face, and left the two young men to their own measures.
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