单词 | postulator |
释义 | postulatorn. 1. A person who brings forward a request, a petitioner; (Roman Catholic Church) a person who pleads the cause of a candidate for beatification or canonization; more fully postulator of the cause. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] askera1382 requirantc1450 requirerc1450 requester1564 requestant1660 postulator1714 applicant?1742 submitter1776 DNR1988 1714 R. Steele Romish Eccles. Hist. 73 The most Reverend P. Fr. Tomasso Ripoll, Provincial of the Holy Land, and Postulator of the Canonization of Pius. 1855 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. XIII. 262 The latter contended that the majority of the postulators ought to prevail over the minority of the electors. 1878 Catholic World Aug. 625 The Rev. Benjamin Paquet.., designated as postulator in this cause. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. at Canonisation The postulator of the cause..asks twice that the name of the servant of God whose cause he pleads may be enrolled in the catalogue of the Saints. 1934 M. Williams & J. Kernan Catholic Church in Action vii. 124 Any Catholic individual or group may solicit the opening of a process of beatification, but this may only be accomplished through a postulator. 1973 Times 2 Nov. 5/5 The required proof of two miracles is said to have brought to the postulator of the cause ‘an embarrassment of choices’. 2004 Church Times 27 Feb. 6/4 On the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Cardinal John Henry Newman on Saturday, the Postulator of his Cause for Canonisation..wrote that there had been ‘real progress’. 2. A person who postulates something; a person who puts forward a postulate. ΚΠ 1899 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 9 172 There is that in the sight of the constructive postulator, fancy-free, busy at his landscape-gardening in the infinite,—which is not so noticeably immoral as ridiculous. 1908 W. James in Philos. Rev. 17 4 For the postulator at any rate, it is true just in proportion as to believe in it works in him the fuller sum of satisfactions. 1941 Philos. Sci. 8 476 A hypothesis is not only about a material situation, but it is also a formulation by a postulator. 1976 Isis 67 551 Certainly the most prolific postulator of undiscovered planets..was..William Henry Pickering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1714 |
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