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English Dictionary: axiomatic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
axiomatic
adj
  1. evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"
    Synonym(s): axiomatic, self-evident, taken for granted(p)
  2. containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom"
    Synonym(s): axiomatic, aphoristic
  3. of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens
    Synonym(s): axiomatic, axiomatical, postulational
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. [bd]Axiomatical
      truth.[b8] --Johnson.
  
               The stores of axiomatic wisdom.               --I. Taylor.
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