NOUN
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
How To Use postulation In A Sentence
- A postulation that it began with the cell and that it was designed. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
- If the "earn them on one hunt, collect them on another" postulation is true -- all I can say is that I've been building up an exponential payday over the past 7 years! Collecting Versus Earning Your Game
- The cosmology of the Bible is not systematized and is not postulational. Reasons to Believe -
- The voice of the stranger was raised as though in anger or altercation, while that of the Governor was pitched lower, in tones that seemed to convey the idea of expostulation, entreaty, and apology. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
- An empirical research is taken with data from manufacturing in China to verify aforesaid postulation and compare with overseas practice.
- To some degree, the expostulation heil is obviously a hailing; but it is hardly an unequivocal one. Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
- Had he sprung at her, or snarled, or shown any anger or resentment such as did the other dogs when so treated by her, she would have screamed and screeched and raised a hubbub of expostulation, crying for help and calling all men to witness how she was being unwarrantably attacked. CHAPTER XXVIII
- Thus the postulation of the Deity is not only permissible, it is unavoidable.
- One was whipped deftly on to his plate, and as he took up his knife and fork to carve it, a great scuffling sounded without, angry voices being raised in expostulation, and, above all, a breathless, insistent appeal for Mr. Carr or Sir Miles. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
- Well, Daddy! said Norah in expostulation – whereat everybody laughed. Mates at Billabong
