Definitions for postulate

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postulate pos·tu·late

Spelling: [verb pos-chuh-leyt; noun Postulate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 565 anagrams from letters in postulate (aelopsttu).

Definitions for postulate

verb (used with object)

1. to ask, demand, or claim.
2. to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing.
3. to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
4. Mathematics, Logic. to assume as a postulate.

noun

1. something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning.
2. Mathematics, Logic. a proposition that requires no proof, being self-evident, or that is for a specific purpose assumed true, and that is used in the proof of other propositions; axiom.
3. a fundamental principle.
4. a necessary condition; prerequisite.

Origin of postulate

1525-35; Latin postulātum petition, thing requested, noun use of neuter of past participle of postulāre to request, demand, akin to pōscere to request

Examples for postulate

This I postulate: if demonstration is necessary, demonstration is at hand.

postulate action, and the very form of the intellect can be deduced from it.

When you wish to behold protectors you must postulate dangers.

A first postulate is, therefore, the equality of the two sexes before the law.

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate.

We take up now the question of ideas, and postulate again that these too must conform both to the subject and to men's character.

He receives as a postulate that which I must have demonstrated.

Even people who postulate a creative God usually acknowledge that his existence shifts the big question rather than resolving it.

Those who try to believe it postulate that they shall be made perfect first.

The Captain acceded to my postulate, and accepted my friend as a corollary.