2022-03-12
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – E - expostulate & postulate
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง expostulate = “ik-SPOS-chuh-leyt”
ออกเสียง postulate – verb = “POS-chuh-leyt” – noun = “POS-chuh-lit”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
expostulate & postulate
Expostulate means
“to reason earnestly,”
“to remonstrate,”
“to demand”:
“The policeman expostulated with the motorist about the dangers of fast driving.”
Postulate is derived from the same Latin word as expostulate
but means
“to claim, assume, ask, or request without any degree of urgency or force”:
“The lecturer postulated the idea that all of us are selfish.”
Dictionary.com:
Postulate, perhaps
Much like the word speculation,
if you postulate, you are assuming without proof.
First evidence of the word dates back to 1525–35.
Postulate stems from the Latin word postul?tum,
meaning “petition, thing requested.”
If you want to use this word, you might say,
“Without any evidence,
I can only postulate as to what the results will be.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
postulate
Did you know?
In 1703, the dedication of the City and County
Purchaser and Builders Dictionary included the following words:
"These your extraordinary Favours … seem to Postulate from me …
a Publick Recognition."
That sense of postulate, a synonym of claim or demand,
has been used by English speakers since the early 1600s.
(The word's Latin grandparent, postulare,
has the same meaning, but postulate first appeared earlier in the 1500s
in senses restricted to ecclesiastical law.)
Postulate was also used as a noun in the late 1500s,
with the meaning "demand" or "stipulation."
That sense is now considered archaic, but we still use the noun postulate.
Today, it usually means
"a hypothesis advanced as an essential presupposition, condition,
or premise of a train of reasoning."
