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Definition of postulant
1 : a person admitted to a religious order as a probationary candidate for membership
2 : a person on probation before being admitted as a candidate for holy orders in the Episcopal Church
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After high school, he was accepted as a postulant to the Augustinian Academy in Staten Island, N.Y., and was accepted to the Order in September 1946.
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Origin and Etymology of postulant
French, petitioner, candidate, postulant, from Middle French, from present participle of postuler to demand, solicit, from Latin postulare
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