एक अनुरोध या आवेदन सबमिट करने से विशेष रूप से एक धार्मिक आदेश में प्रवेश की मांग

Noun:

दरख़ास्त करनेवाला, प्रार्थक,

postulant's Usage Examples:

The next episode of the rite exactly reproduces the Roman confiteor as it stood in the 2nd century; "the postulant says: ' Parcite nobis.

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

The elder takes the Gospel off the white cloth, where it has lain all through the ceremony, and places it on the postulant's head, and the other good men present place their right hands on his head; they shall say the parcias (spare), and thrice the "Let us adore the Father and Son and Holy Spirit," and then pray thus: "Holy Father, welcome thy servant in thy justice and send upon him thy grace and thy holy spirit."

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

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.

Asked if he will fulfil each of these, the postulant answers: "I have this will and determination.

There followed the Renunciation, primitive enough in form, but the postulant solemnly renounced, not Satan and his works and pomp, but the harlot church of the persecutors, whose prayers were more deadly than desirable.

The Lord's Prayer is then repeated by the postulant after the elder, who explains it clause by clause; the words panis superstantialis being interpreted not of the material but of the spiritual bread, which consists of the Words of Life.

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.

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

postulant's Meaning':

one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order

Synonyms:

supplicant, requester, petitioner, suppliant,

Antonyms:

imperative, nonreligious person, defendant,