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postulation|pɒstjʊˈleɪʃən|
[a. F. postulation, † -acion (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. postulātiōn-em, n. of action from postulāre to postulate.]
1. The action of requesting or demanding; a request, demand, claim.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 44 Accordyng to your petycions that ye make postulacion. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 147 Postulation was made for the continuance of rest. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) 1 Tim. ii. 1 That obsecrations, praiers, postulations, thankes-gevings be made for al men. 1659Pearson Creed I. vi. 430 Presenting his postulations at the throne of God. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 375 William,..in conforming to the constitution upon the postulation of the English acted with entire consistency.
2. Eccl. Law. The presentation to office of some one canonically disqualified, esp. by being already vested in a similar office, in which case the recommendation took the form of a request or appeal to the supreme authority to sanction the election. (See quot. 1688.)
1567Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 306 For his election, or rather postulation, is but to be presented to the Queens Highness to have her royal assent. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2365/3 The Cardinal, as being Bishop of Strasbourg, could not, without the Pope's Dispensation, be chosen but by Postulation, which required Two Thirds of the Electors to be for him. a1715Burnet Own Time (1753) III. iv. 209 The Cardinals postulation was defective since he had not two thirds. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xix. 307 note, All postulations, that is, elections of persons disqualified. 1889Dublin Rev. Oct. 335 The word election comprehends postulation, nomination, and presentation.
3. Rom. Law. An application to the prætor for authority to bring an accusation.
1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 23 The postulation was the regal right of the Roman Commonwealth.
4. Logic and gen. The taking for granted of the truth or existence of something unproved, esp. as a basis of reasoning or belief; an assumption.
1648Filmer Anarchy Lim. & Mixed Mon. in Free-holder, etc. (1679) 247 Our Author expects it should be admitted as a magisterial postulation, without any other proof than a naked supposition. 1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xii. (1701) 481/1 We know how absurd this Postulation is. 1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 380 Mr. Mill cannot surely want this cumbrous allowance of postulation. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 401 The postulation of a single separate ‘centre for concepts’.
5. Math. (See quots.)
1869Cayley Coll. Math. Papers VII. 225 We may say that the number of conditions imposed upon a surface of the order n which passes through the common intersection is the Postulation of this intersection. 1870Ibid. 140 The general quadric surface..can..be determined so as to satisfy 9 conditions; or, as we might express it, the Postulation of the surface is = 9. |