POSTULATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postulator mean? 

• POSTULATOR (noun)
  The noun POSTULATOR has 2 senses:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization

2. someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument

  Familiarity information: POSTULATOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTULATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("postulator" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("postulator" is a kind of...):

affirmer; asserter; asseverator; avower; declarer (someone who claims to speak the truth)

Derivation:

postulate (take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom)