Meaning of POSTULANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâschulunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order |
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| | See Also: | | petitioner, suppliant, supplicant | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pos"tu*lant\ (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. postulans, p.
pr. of postulare. See {Postulate}.]
One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
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| | Related Terms: | | abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, applicant, apprentice, articled clerk, aspirant, beginner, bidder, boot, candidate, canoness, catechumen, claimant, clergywoman, conventual, debutant, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, ignoramus, inductee, initiate, lady superior, mother superior, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, nun, petitioner, prioress, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, seeker, sister, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, superioress, suppliant, supplicant, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, tyro |
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