postulate
verb (used with object)
to ask, demand, or claim.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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He was postulating mere theories of life on account of the charms of one dear She.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie