Hypertext Webster Gateway: "axiomatic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Axiomatic \Ax`i*o*mat"ic\, Axiomatical \Ax`i*o*mat"ic*al\, a.
[Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom;
self-evident; characterized by axioms. ``Axiomatical truth.''
--Johnson.
The stores of axiomatic wisdom. --I. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
axiomatic
adj 1: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we
hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: {self-evident},
{taken for granted(p)}]
2: containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom" [syn: {aphoristic}]
3: of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic
physics"; "the postulational method was applied to
geometry"- S.S.Stevens [syn: {axiomatical}, {postulational}]
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