Postulate Definition

pŏschə-lāt
postulated, postulates, postulating
verb
postulated, postulates, postulating
To assume without proof to be true, real, or necessary, esp. as a basis for argument.
Webster's New World
To propose as a hypothesis or explanation.
Researchers now postulate that the disease is caused by a virus.
American Heritage
To claim; demand; require.
Webster's New World
To take as self-evident; assume.
Webster's New World

(intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.

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postulates

Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument.

Wiktionary
Something postulated; assumption or axiom.
Webster's New World
A basic principle.
Webster's New World
A prerequisite.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Postulated.
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Other Word Forms of Postulate

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postulate
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postulates

Origin of Postulate

  • Medieval Latin postulātum, past participle of postulāre (“to assume" later "to appoint or request ecclesiastical appointment”), from Latin, postulō (“request”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin postulāre postulāt- to nominate to a bishopric, to assume from Latin to request prek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Postulate Sentence Examples

  • Beneath Hamilton's postulate there is a deeper principle of logic - _A rational being thinks only to the point, and speaks only to understand and be understood.

  • Not that men should or can carry this logical postulate out in ordinary life; but it is necessary in the logical analysis of judgments, and yet logicians neglect it.

  • He never conceded the postulate, because, though he knew France better than anybody in England except Arthur Young, he did not know her condition well enough.

  • The second postulate was a sound financial basis, which he expected the wealth of France to supply in the shape of subsidies to be spent on armaments.

  • Asserting that Ideas alone really exist, he yet found it necessary to postulate a second principle of not-being, the groundwork of sensuous existence and of imperfection and evil.

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