Pronunciation: ' päs-ch ə - ˌ l ā t
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: -lat · ed ; -lat · ing
Etymology: Latin postulatus, past participle of postulare; akin to Latin poscere to ask, Old High German forsc ō n to search, Sanskrit p ṛ cchati he asks ― more at PRAY
Date: 1593
1 : DEMAND , CLAIM
2 a : to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary : depend upon or start from the postulate of b : to assume as a postulate or axiom (as in logic or mathematics)
– pos · tu · la · tion \ ˌ päs-ch ə - ' l ā -sh ə n \ noun
– pos · tu · la · tion · al \ -shn ə l, -sh ə -n ə l \ adjective