postulant
Pre-novice monastery seeker
A postulant is a candidate seeking admission to a religious order, the earliest stage before becoming a novice.
The term extends to anyone formally applying for membership or position in an organization: Several postulants presented themselves for consideration.
The word suggests a period of testing and evaluation before full acceptance.
Inexperienced newcomer to field
- novitiateReligious training period
- candidatePerson seeking selection
- aspirantOne seeking advancement
- nunHebrew alphabet's fourteenth
monk · friar · sister · brother · oblate · convent · monastery · cloister
Person seeking selection
- seekerOne who looks
- aspirantOne seeking advancement
- entrantCompetition participant
- petitionerOne who formally requests
supplicant · applicant · requesting · admission · acceptance · entry · application · interview
Address to deity
- faithTrust without proof
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- pietySincere religious devotion
- meditationFocused attention practice
contemplation · worship · reverence · holiness · celibacy · chastity · obedience · poverty
Judicial examination of claims
- testingExamining to evaluate
- preparationArranging things in advance
- formationCreation or arrangement
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
evaluation · observation · guidance · discernment · temporary · provisional · conditional · scrutiny
novice
Inexperienced newcomer to field
nun · monk · friar · sister · brother · oblate · convent · monastery · cloister · habit
candidate
Person seeking selection
petitioner · supplicant · applicant · requesting · admission · acceptance · entry · application · interview · screening
prayer
Address to deity
meditation · contemplation · worship · reverence · holiness · celibacy · chastity · obedience · poverty · asceticism
trial
Judicial examination of claims
- testingExamining to evaluate
- preparationArranging things in advance
- formationCreation or arrangement
training · evaluation · observation · guidance · discernment · temporary · provisional · conditional · scrutiny · assessment
- new membersrookie, freshman, novice, apprentice, trainee
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- church rolesbishop, deacons, priest, pastor, lay readers
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- clergywomenpriestess, abbess, prioress, deaconess, novice
- Friarsfriar, friars, Franciscan, Franciscans, friary
- Koch's postulatesCriteria linking pathogen to disease
postulate, postulation, postulated, postulates, postulating, postulations, postulants