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The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. Bacon.

Same as Jamesonite.

The quality or state of being plumose.

An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.

The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.

ty or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.

Populousness.[Obs.]

The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. Locke.

Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative. "Positive good." Bacon.

In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. Bacon. Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord, Before I positively speak here…

The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission i…

A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominate…

A believer in positivism. -- a.

Positiveness. J. Morley.

See Posture. [Obs.]

To postpone. [Obs.] Feltham.

The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede.