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/ˈpɑstʃəˌɫeɪt, ˈpɑstʃəɫət/
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VERB
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require as useful, just, or proper
It takes nerve to do what she did
This job asks a lot of patience and skill
success usually requires hard work
This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice -
maintain or assert
He contended that Communism had no future -
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
He posited three basic laws of nature
NOUN
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
How To Use postulate In A Sentence
- It is postulated that the type of protein in the diet influences directly the intrinsic capacity of the B lymphocytes to respond to an immunogenic stimulus.
- The bieing innate of a battery based upon peoples entrance to fast as well as postulated for benefaction needs. Archive 2009-12-01
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
- But this is not to suggest that Hebb's influence was just his postulates related to synaptic change.
- (If you are willing to postulate a matter-antimatter explosive, aka a positronium bomb, then P can increase by the maximal amount from 0 to e/3.) Dark Matter: Still Existing
- He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
- The old grandfather had died in the meantime, so that he was dependent on the food supplied by his stepfather and uncles, and they had to expostulate with him on what they called his shark-like voracity. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends
- Why, then, should Catholic theology, because of its postulates, lemmata, and mysteries, be denied the name of a science? The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Anthropologist Lloyd Swantz, who began researching Zaramo societies as early as the 1960s, postulated that the intermingling of Swahili societies with an emphasis on patriliny might have influenced Zaramo societies. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
- The term 'dysgenics' was first used by David Starr Jordan in 1915 when he postulated that wars killed off the fitter men while the less fit were left at home. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]