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Postnuptial
- adjective - relating to events after a marriage
Postulating
- verb - maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
- require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
Postulation
- noun - (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
Postulators
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization
- someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument
Postulatory
- - Of the nature of a postulate.
Potato Tree
- noun - hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers; not a true potato
- South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato
Pre-Emption
- noun - a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"
- the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
- the right to purchase something in advance of others
Pre-Emptive
- adjective - designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence; "a preemptive business offer"
Precipitant
- adjective - an agent that causes a precipitate to form
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"