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One of a pair of a paired organs.

Having several or many leaflets.

To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.

To explain by marginal notes; to postil. Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight.

axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem. The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny. Eng.…

Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference. Sir T. Browne.

To walk before. [R.] Jordan.

To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.

To act as a prelate. [Obs.] Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer.

Prelacy. [Obs.] Milton.

The office of a prelate. Harmar.

A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate. Milton.

A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process.

The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.

t; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid. -- Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of revolution, und…

A salt of propiolic acid.

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.

Marked with small spots. The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser. Woodward.

To form into pustules, or blisters.

Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.