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Pot

Pot a term applicable to so many sorts of vessels that it can scarcely be restricted to any one in particular. SEE BASIN; SEE CUP, etc. But from the places where the word is used we may collect the uses, and also in part the materials of the utensils implied. This vessel, so necessary in … Continue reading “Pot”

Postvorta

Postvorta a surname of the Roman goddess Carmenta, indicating her knowledge of the past, just as Altevorta denotes her knowledge of the future. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Postures

Postures are the bodily attitudes assumed in the various parts of divine worship, whether public or private. No act whatever can be performed without the body taking some posture. This is the case in divine worship as well as in matters of less consequence. The only question, therefore, is whether all possible postures are equally … Continue reading “Postures”

POSTURE

POSTURE Posture of persons acting, determines, in some measure, the nature or kind of their actions. STANDING, signifies resisting, defending, struggling, and contending for victory; giving assistance to friends, and the like; as in Act 7:55, Christ is said to be standing, when he appeared to St. Stephen, as ready to assist him in his … Continue reading “POSTURE”

Postulation

postulation (Latin: postulare, to ask) It may happen that the electors to an office regard a certain person as more fitted for the office than others, but there stands in the way of his being elected a canonical impediment, from which a dispensation can and is usually granted; in that case the electors can by … Continue reading “Postulation”

Postulate

Postulate (, postulatum, that which is asked or assumed to prove something else). According to some, the difference between axioms and postulates is analogous to that between theorems and problems: the former expressing truths which are self-evident, and from which other propositions may be deduced; the latter, operations which may easily be performed, and by … Continue reading “Postulate”

Postulant

postulant (Latin: postulare, ask) In the strict sense, one who is taking the first step in the religious life, before having received the habit. Broadly speaking, a person who aspires to religious life but has not yet been admitted into any particular order, such as a pupil of an Apostolic school, or one who having … Continue reading “Postulant”

POSTS

POSTS Special messengers in the East, sent on occasions of importance, when they rode swiftly, and in many cases with fresh horses or dromedaries awaiting them at convenient distances, Gen 8:10-14 . Job says, “My days are swifter than a post,” Job 9:25 . Footrunners were also employed, 2Sa 18:22-27 ; and experienced runners will … Continue reading “POSTS”

Postpredicament

Postpredicament Noun generally applied since the time of Abelard to any particular one of the five conceptions, or relations, examined in detail in the tenth and following chapters of the treatise on the Categories, or Predicaments, ascribed to Aristotle, which, however, was very probably written by others after his death. — J.J.R. Fuente: The Dictionary … Continue reading “Postpredicament”