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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.]

The state of being fat; fatness.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

l adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n.

The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor.