postulate

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But at the outset of an agricultural colony this postulate is as near the truth as politics want.

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  1. transitive verb To make claim for; demand.
  2. transitive verb To assume or assert the truth, reality, or necessity of, especially as a basis of an argument.
  3. transitive verb To assume as a premise or axiom; take for granted. See Synonyms at presume.
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  • In the case which you postulate, my own choice would have fallen upon Kay. —  Tom Brown’s Body - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 22: 1949
  • The postulate is as follows: It is frequently possible to form a series of events such that, from one or two members of the series, something can be inferred as to all the other members. —  My Philosophical Development
  • The word postulate is borrowed from the science of mathematics. —  Biographia Literaria
  • This postulate is compatible with what may be called 'frictional' unemployment. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • In addition to 'frictional' unemployment, the postulate is also compatible with 'voluntary' unemployment due to the refusal or inability of a unit of labour, as a result of legislation or social practices or of combination for collective bargaining or of slow response to change or of mere human obstinacy, to accept a reward corresponding to the value of the product attributable to its marginal productivity. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
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  1. Medieval Latin postulāre, postulāt-, to nominate to a bishopric, to assume, from Latin, to request; see prek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin postulatus, past participle of postulare (later Old Italian postulare = Spanish Portuguese Provencal postular = French postuler), ask, demand, require, summon, prosecute, impeach, etc., also require or need; perhaps, as a freq. form, from poscere (past participle *posctus, *postus), ask, demand, perhaps orig. *porscere, akin to procare, ask, demand, procus, a wooer, and precari, pray: see procacious and pray.
  2. = French postulat = Spanish Portuguese postulado = Italian postulato, from Latin postulatum. a demand, properly neuter of postulatus, past participle of postulare, demand: see postulate, v.
  3. from Latin postulatus, past participle: see postulate, v.
 

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