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Contend vs Postulate - What's the difference?

contend | postulate |

As a verb contend

is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

As a noun postulate is

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contend

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(en verb)
  • to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
  • The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
  • * Shakespeare
  • For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
  • to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • * Dryden
  • You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
  • to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
  • * John Locke
  • The question which our author would contend for.
  • * Dr H. More
  • Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.

    Synonyms

    * struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debate

    postulate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument.
  • A fundamental element; a basic principle.
  • (logic) An axiom.
  • A requirement; a prerequisite.
  • Verb

    (postulat)
  • To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
  • * 1883 , , Prop. XXII,
  • But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause;
  • * 1911 , Encyclopædia Britannica , "",
  • [T]he attempt to arrive at a physical explanation of existence led the Ionian thinkers to postulate various primal elements or simply the infinite ?? ???????.
  • (ambitransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
  • * 1874 , John Small (ed.), The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld , Vol 1, p. xvi
  • [A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination was never completed.
  • (ambitransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Postulated.
  • (Hudibras)
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