Probationer

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.

(2): ( n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is, in the Church of Scotland, a student in divinity, who, bringing a certificate from a professor in a university of his good morals, and his having performed his exercises to approbation, is admitted to undergo several trials before the presbytery, and upon his acquitting himself properly in these, receives a license to preach. (See Probation).