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- English Word Positive Definition The positive degree or form.
- English Word Positive Definition A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.
- English Word Positive Definition The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- English Word Positively Definition In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.
- English Word Positiveness Definition The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a.
- English Word Positivism Definition 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 denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.
- English Word Positivist Definition A believer in positivism.
- English Word Positivist Definition Relating to positivism.
- English Word Positivity Definition Positiveness.
- English Word Positure Definition See Posture.
- English Word Posnet Definition A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.
- English Word Posologic Definition Alt. of Posological
- English Word Posological Definition Pertaining to posology.
- English Word Posology Definition The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.
- English Word Pospolite Definition A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.
- English Word Poss Definition To push; to dash; to throw.
- English Word Posse Definition See Posse comitatus.
- English Word Posse comitatus Definition The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed.
- English Word Posse comitatus Definition A collection of people; a throng; a rabble.
- English Word Possess Definition To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
- English Word Possess Definition To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.
- English Word Possess Definition To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
- English Word Possess Definition To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
- English Word Possess Definition To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.
- English Word Possessed Definition of Possess
- English Word Possessing Definition of Possess
- English Word Possession Definition The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
- English Word Possession Definition The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
- English Word Possession Definition The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
- English Word Possession Definition The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.