Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supplicatory.
- Postulating; assuming without proof.
- Assumed without proof.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of a postulate.
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- adjective Of the nature of a
postulate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among the postulatory letters is one which cannot be read without very particular interest.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community
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Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community
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Catalysis are mainly postulatory, and most of the postulates advanced can be disposed of, in spite of which many important discoveries and accomplishments have been attained through Catalysis, and I believe I can safely say that it presents as fertile a field for research as any other field in the chemical science.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922
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The documents attested more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces, and thirty postulatory letters from archbishops and bishops in France besought the beatification from the Holy See.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Among the postulatory letters is one which cannot be read without very particular interest.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation Anonymous 1880
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Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius IX, who after the usual delay, permitted the preliminary steps towards the Beatification.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation Anonymous 1880
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