postulatory

Adjective

postulatory (not generally comparable, comparative more postulatory, superlative most postulatory)

1. (not comparable, usually) Of the nature of a postulate.
   • Whoever shall peruse the phytognomy of Porta and strictly observe how vegetable realities are forced into animal representations, may perceive the semblance is but postulatory.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
   • How intensely postulatory these axioms are, is best seen when we consider what is too often neglected, viz. the limits of their use. The unchanging is the uncaused; no reason is required for that which is ‘self-evident.’ But, psychologically, everything is self-evident which provokes no question...1902, Henry Cecil Sturt, Personal Idealism, Axioms as Postulates
2. (not comparable, usually) Supplicatory.
   • postulatory prayers
   • The documents attested more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces, and thirty postulatory letters from archbishops and bishops in France besought the beatification from the Holy See.1913, “St. Germaine Cousin”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)