Noun:

சமய அமைப்பில் சேர விண்ணப்பிப்பவர்,

postulant's Usage Examples:

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Synonyms:

supplicant, requester, petitioner, suppliant,

Antonyms:

imperative, nonreligious person, defendant,