What is "postulants"

Usage examples of "postulants".

Under the personal supervision of the Three-Horned Inquisitor and the Patriarch of Pasadena, a devoted band of Familiars and Postulants has traveled from settlement to settlement, making the yearly census.

Awe-inspiring in their chasubles of Anglo-Nubian fur, in their tiaras of gilded horns, Patriarchs and Archi­mandrites, Presbyters and Postulants stand in two groups at the head of the altar steps, chanting anti-phonally in a high treble to the music of bone recorders and a battery of xylophones.

Then one of the Postulants takes the child out of her arms and holds it up before the Patriarch.

The two Postulants follow, striking at her savagely with their consecrated bulls' pizzles.

Flushed and a little breathless from so unusually strenuous an exercise, the plump young Postulants seize another woman -- a girl this time, frail and slender almost to the point of childishness.

Poole stares after the retreating figures, then glances uneasily at the two Postulants who have been appointed to guard him.

With an expression of disgust, the two Postulants simultaneously spit.

The Postulants look at one another in silence, then simultaneously spit.

There, in the sunshine, a score of Postulants are busily at work, with thread and needle, stitching aprons to waist­bands, patches to trouser seats and shirt fronts.

The other postulants are too damn busy, and the trainers are overworked as we well know, and I don't give a damn.

And being around Postulants and Novices and Symbiotics had helped too: all these people were in the process of saying goodbye to their lives, and their company helped reconcile Rand to living his own.

The current three classes would graduate, those who made it through, but it would be at least four months before any new Postulants would be lifted to orbit.

Symbiosis is profoundly disorienting in its first onset, and some find it terrifying—Stardancer Postulants used to spend three months in Top Step preparing themselves for the transition.