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Definition of Postulator
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization.
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend
2. Noun. Someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument.
Definition of Postulator
1. Noun. A person who postulates something as the basis of an argument ¹
2. Noun. A Roman Catholic official who makes the case for the beatification of a proposed saint ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postulator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postulator
Literary usage of Postulator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The postulator of the cause, generall)' a person of high rank, ... The postulator
selects and summons the witnesses in favour of the cause. ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"The litanies are thereupon chanted, and the demand of the postulator renewed.
... The postulator selects and summons the witnesses in favour of the cause. ..."
3. The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs (1905)
"I. The choice of a Vice-postulator has to be made by the postulator-General or
Chief Mover of the Cause, whose duty it will be to promote all the legal ..."
4. The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism," by William James (1909)
"But how (especially if the postulator were himself a thoroughgoing pragmatist)
could it ever be satisfactory to him not to believe in that feeling, ..."
5. The life of blessed Margaret Mary by George Tickell (1869)
"is the line of argument advanced by the postulator of the Cause under Pope Clement
XIII. The reason why the Sacred Heart should have been proposed as an ..."
6. Theology of the Cultus of the Sacred Heart: A Moral, Dogmatic and Historical by Joseph Julius Charles Petrovits (1917)
"... to be especially open to suspicion which give assurance of predestination and
confirmation in grace.2 To this objection the postulator Causae replied to ..."
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