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‖ postulatum|pɒstjʊˈleɪtəm|
Pl. -a; also 7 8 -ums (-a's).
[L. postulātum a demand, request, n. use of pa. pple. neut. of postulāre to postulate.
Now generally in English form, postulate n.1, which see for the history of the senses.]
†1. A demand; a requirement. = postulate 1.
1639Laud in Rushw. Hist. Coll. ii. II. 981 Concerning your Postulata, I shall pray you to allow me the like freedom. 1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell 93 To that purpose several irreverend Postulata were put to him. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. 359 But then that King must by his Oath assent To Postulata's of the Government. 1703― in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. iv. 62 To make any postulata of future loyalty and my obedient submission.
2. = postulate n.1 2. Now rare or Obs.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. i. §4 (1622) 6 Which two postulata, if they be not..presumed by the Hearer,..there cannot possibly be any proceeding. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 12 In the same way and method as is used in the mathematicks, consisting of postulata, definitions, and axioms. 1698Norris Treat. Sev. Subj. 42 For the Demonstration of this Proposition, I desire but this one Postulatum. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy IX. xxiii, It was built upon one of the most concessible postulatums in Nature. 1827Scott Hoffmann's Novels Prose Wks. 1835 XVIII. 292 A train of acting and reasoning in itself just and probable, although the postulatum on which it is grounded is in the highest degree extravagant.
†b. Math. = postulate n.1 3. Obs.
1743Emerson Fluxions 1 Postulatum. That any Quantity may be supposed to be generated by continual Increase. Ibid. 5 Now by the Postulatum, these Moments will increase the Quantities x, y, which therefore will become x + o x. , and y + o y. .
†3. Something required to be done; a problem; a desideratum. Obs.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 570 More easie wayes of performing this postulatum, are to be found in..Tacquet's Arithmetick. 1819Pantologia X. s.v. Quadrature, The quadrature, especially among the ancient mathematicians, was a great postulatum. |