2A person who presents a case for the canonization or beatification of someone in the Roman Catholic Church.
（天主教）列福（或列圣）申请官
Example sentencesExamples
As he must, the promoter deals with objections and reservations raised by the postulators and censors.
He was the postulator for Newman's cause in Rome, and Newman was declared a fit subject for canonization in 1991.
He was a Mexican priest who had been appointed vice postulator of the Causes for the Beatification of the two young Fatima visionaries.
A Vatican official, called a relator, works with the postulator to produce a positio, an extensive written statement, which is presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.
And in harmony with many of the postulators, he points to Catherine as a figure in contrast with the church he now rules: ‘What did she understand by renewal and reform of the church?’
Definition of postulator in US English:
postulator
nounˈpɑstʃəˌleɪdərˈpäsCHəˌlādər
1A person who postulates something.
假设者，要求者
2A person who presents a case for the canonization or beatification of someone in the Roman Catholic Church.
（天主教）列福（或列圣）申请官
Example sentencesExamples
As he must, the promoter deals with objections and reservations raised by the postulators and censors.
He was a Mexican priest who had been appointed vice postulator of the Causes for the Beatification of the two young Fatima visionaries.
A Vatican official, called a relator, works with the postulator to produce a positio, an extensive written statement, which is presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.
He was the postulator for Newman's cause in Rome, and Newman was declared a fit subject for canonization in 1991.
And in harmony with many of the postulators, he points to Catherine as a figure in contrast with the church he now rules: ‘What did she understand by renewal and reform of the church?’