postulator

A noun referring to a person who proposes or advocates for a candidate for beatification or canonization in the Roman Catholic Church, or someone who assumes something as a basis for an argument.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant une personne qui propose ou soutient un candidat à la béatification ou à la canonisation dans l'Église catholique romaine, ou celle qui pose quelque chose comme principe de base d'un raisonnement.

1. Church official C2 formal

   A person who presents and argues for a candidate's case for beatification or canonization in the Roman Catholic Church.

   • The postulator submitted the evidence of the miracle to the Vatican.
   • She served as the postulator for the cause of the local saint.
   • The postulator's role is crucial in the canonization process.

   🇫🇷Postulateur

2. One who assumes C2 formal

   A person who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument or theory.

   • The philosopher was a postulator of innate ideas.
   • As a postulator of the theory, he assumed the existence of dark matter.
   • The postulator's assumptions were challenged by the critics.

   🇫🇷Celui qui pose une hypothèse

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• postulator's possessive singular form