The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postulate \Pos"tu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Postulating.]
To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.
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To take without express consent; to assume.
The Byzantine emperors appear to have . . . postulated a sort of paramount supremacy over this nation.
--W. Tooke. To invite earnestly; to solicit. [Obs.]
--Bp. Burnet.
Postulated \Pos"tu*la`ted\, a.
Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: postulate)
Usage examples of "postulated".
Carialle said, monitoring as the IT program recorded the correct uses of the verb, and postulated forms and suffixes for other verbs in its file, shuffling the onomatopoeic transliterations down like cards.
The coelancanth, an early lobe-finned fish, was once confidently thought to have been a direct ancestor of the types postulated to have invaded the land and given rise to the amphibians.
As long as man has recognized that his chief superiority over the animal kingdom was a thinking mind, so long as he understood that his mind alone was his weapon, he has searched and pondered and postulated in efforts to find a solution.
The basic nature of man is discovered in Dianetics rather than hazarded29 or postulated, since that basic nature can be brought into action in any individual completely.
Man survived, it was postulated, solely in terms of the survival of his group.
It was postulated that the cells themselves had the urge to survive and that that urge was common to life.
It was further postulated that organisms—individuals—were constructed of cells and were in fact aggregations2 of colonies of cells.
Whoever postulated that it was possible was postulating out of bad data and no observation.
It could be postulated that the analytical mind has its greatest bounce against the suppressor, its highest ability to care for the organism, when it is in the third zone.
It was postulated that the primary engram must in some way suppress later engrams.
And everything it has learned could be postulated to be contained in the new generation.
In the case of quasars, conventional theory postulated charged particles spiraling inward in the intense gravity fields of black holes as the source.
It all becomes even more curious when you examine the credentials of the postulated transmitting agent, HIV.
We have further postulated that he chooses violence as a form for expressing that rage because he learned to do so in some sort of domestic setting, quite probably from a violent father whose actions went unacknowledged and unpunished.
Lucius had postulated that the one inconsistency in the man’s schedule—the killing of Georgio Santorelli on March 3rd—could be accounted for by the deceptively mundane phrase “I decided to wait” in the note to Mrs.