A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1533, 1683
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Postulatioune, -acio(u)n, -ation, n. [e.m.E. postulation (c 1485 in sense b, 1567 in sense a), L. postulātiōn- n. of action f. postulāre (see Postulat n.1 and v., Postule v.), in med. L. ‘choice by chapter of an ineligible person’ (Latham), F. postulation (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] a. Nomination to ecclesiastical office of one canonically disqualified, by way of a request to the Pope or other ecclesiastical authority to admit him by dispensation. b. A request. (Only in Boece.) —a. c1420 Wynt. ix 2286 (see Postule v.). 1683 Martine Reliq. Divi Andreae 33.
Postulation is defined an unanimous petition of the chapter, that one may be promoted to the prelacie, who, not for anie defect of body or mind, but for some other defect, whereby he is not inhabile to take care of the church, yet cannot be chosenb. 1533 Boece 37.
Nocht refusing thare postulacioun [L. postulata], … he send in Ireland his thre sonnys 1533 Ib. 40 b.
Strangelie [L. Aegre] first Scottis herd this postulacioun [L. legationem] 1533 Ib. 146.
Ambassiatouris reherssing thare charge in presens of Gald, becaus the postulacioun twichit the weill of athir kinrik, sone purchest thare desiris; [L. Quem postularant … facile impetrarunt] 1533 Ib. 346 b.
I beleif that the Scottis … sall consent to the just postulaciouns of Charlis oure souerane 1533 Ib. 92 b, 133, 370.
