Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Supplication; prayer.
  • noun The act of postulating, or assuming without proof; supposition; assumption.
  • noun In ecclesiastical law, the presentation or election to any office of one who is in some way disqualified for the appointment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of postulating or something postulated
  • noun logic Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
  • noun (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument

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Examples

  • If the "earn them on one hunt, collect them on another" postulation is true -- all I can say is that I've been building up an exponential payday over the past 7 years!

    Collecting Versus Earning Your Game 2009

  • If the "earn them on one hunt, collect them on another" postulation is true -- all I can say is that I've been building up an exponential payday over the past 7 years!

    Collecting Versus Earning Your Game 2009

  • A postulation is a petition presented to a competent ecclesiastical superior, that he may promote to a certain dignity a person who is not strictly eligible on account of some canonical impediment which is usually dispensable.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • In response to your postulation that “when managed properly, human hunters, predators, and a healthy, natural ecosystem can all coexist” I must agree with you, based on the reality of rational, empirical science.

    Wolves Kill 23 Lambs In Oregon 2009

  • But getting back to the reason why I pasted the quote into this comment, this is the only postulation in the book that Behe makes in regards to the origin of life.

    Behe, Common Descent, & UD 2009

  • In response to your postulation that “when managed properly, human hunters, predators, and a healthy, natural ecosystem can all coexist” I must agree with you, based on the reality of rational, empirical science.

    Wolves Kill 23 Lambs In Oregon 2009

  • A postulation that it began with the cell and that it was designed.

    Behe, Common Descent, & UD 2009

  • Cox and Forshaw take us through more than a century of postulation and exploration, ending with the mystery of the Higgs boson, a particle that may account for the masses of other subatomic particles.

    Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011

  • But that private view (still a postulation, not even an hypothesis in my mind) is not helped when I read the latest on climate data.

    2009 August — Fusion Despatches 2009

  • Syādvāda, an ancient Jainist doctrine of 7-fold postulation, allows you a multiplicity of angles of seeing reality.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: WYSIWYC 2010

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