NOUN
- (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization
- someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument
How To Use postulator In A Sentence
- Her expostulatory letter to her brother and sister. Clarissa Harlowe
- Catalysis are mainly postulatory, and most of the postulates advanced can be disposed of, in spite of which many important discoveries and accomplishments have been attained through Catalysis, and I believe I can safely say that it presents as fertile a field for research as any other field in the chemical science. The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
- The Vatican-based Mr. Ambrosi is a "postulator," or advocate, for potential saints during the rigorous investigative process. Clerical Whispers
- Among the postulatory letters is one which cannot be read without very particular interest. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
- Gabriel O'Donnell, academic dean at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, has served as postulator for two different causes: the Rev. Sainthood is Catholic church's way to recognize a 'friend of God'
- Older SF actually had a lot of "expostulatory lumps," and I rather liked them you can find some of the same sort of writing in the parts of Moby Dick and Les Miserables that are usually abridged out of those works. Does Science Fiction (Still) Matter?
- Dot Moxon's expostulatory and belligerent voice dominating the broken murmur of male voices. She Closed Her Eyes
- The following day, 26 April, the Postulator paid his respects at the tomb of the Servant of God in the Ljubljana cemetery.
- He was the postulator for Newman's cause in Rome, and Newman was declared a fit subject for canonization in 1991.
- They paced the centre-alley for nearly an hour, talking earnestly: he — looking grave, yet restless; she — wearing an amazed, expostulatory, dissuasive air. Villette
