Pronunciation
- Noun
- (UK) enPR: pŏsʹtyo͝o-lət IPA(key): /ˈpɒstjʊlət/
- (US) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lət, pŏsʹchə-lāt', IPA(key): /ˈpɑst͡ʃələt/, /ˈpɑst͡ʃəˌleɪt/
- Hyphenation: pos‧tu‧late
- Adjective
- (UK) enPR: pŏsʹtyo͝o-lət IPA(key): /ˈpɒstjʊlət/
- (US) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lət, IPA(key): /ˈpɑst͡ʃələt/
- Hyphenation: pos‧tu‧late
- Verb
- (UK) enPR: pŏsʹtyo͝o-lāt IPA(key): /ˈpɒstjʊleɪt/
- (US) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lāt' IPA(key): /ˈpɑst͡ʃəˌleɪt/
- Hyphenation: pos‧tu‧late
Adjective
postulate (not comparable)
- Postulated.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:postulate Illation
Verb
postulate (third-person singular simple present postulates, present participle postulating, simple past and past participle postulated)
- To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
- 1883, Benedictus de Spinoza, translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Ethics, Part 3, Prop. XXII,
- But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; […]
1911, Infinite, Encyclopædia Britannica:[T]he attempt to arrive at a physical explanation of existence led the Ionian thinkers to postulate various primal elements or simply the infinite τὸ ἀπειρον.
- (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
1874, John Small, editor, The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, volume 1, page xvi:[A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination […] was never completed.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.
Translations
to appoint to an ecclesiastic position
to request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office