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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 noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Appositive to the words going immediately before. Knatchbull.

Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [R.]

Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.] His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates.

In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.

gative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.

Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.

Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.

Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.

Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.

Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

ndependence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.