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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Postulate  \Pos"tu*late\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Postulated};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Postulating}.] 
  1.  To  beg,  or  assume  without  proof;  as  to  postulate 
  conclusions. 
 
  2.  To  take  without  express  consent;  to  assume. 
 
  The  Byzantine  emperors  appear  to  have  .  .  . 
  postulated  a  sort  of  paramount  supremacy  over  this 
  nation.  --W.  Tooke. 
 
  3.  To  invite  earnestly;  to  solicit.  [Obs.]  --Bp.  Burnet. 




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