Definitions
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- adj. Of the nature of a postulate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of the nature of a postulate.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Supplicatory.
- Postulating; assuming without proof.
- Assumed without proof.
Etymologies
Examples
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Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius
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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.
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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
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Among the postulatory letters is one which cannot be read without very particular interest.
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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.
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