2. To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.
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Put; set; placed.
1. State of being placed; situation; often with reference to other objects, or to different parts of the same object.
2. We have different prospects of the same thing according to our different positions to it.
3. Manner of standing or being placed; attitude; as an inclining position
4. Principle laid down; proposition advanced or affirmed as a fixed principle, or stated as the ground of reasoning, or to be proved.
5. Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which precede.
6. The advancement of any principle.
7. State; condition.
8. Great Britain, at the peace of 1763, stood in a position to prescribe her own terms.
1. 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.
2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
5. A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
To indicate the position of; to place.
Respecting position. [Not used.]
Of or pertaining to position.
1. Properly, set; laid down; expressed; direct; explicit; opposed to implied; as, he told us in positive words; we have his positive declaration to the fact; the testimony is positive
2. Absolute; express; not admitting any condition or discretion. The commands of the admiral are positive
3. Absolute; real; existing in fact; opposed to negative, as positive good, which exists by itself, whereas negative good is merely the absence of evil; or opposed to relative or arbitrary, as beauty is not a positive thing, but depends on the different tastes of people.
4. Direct; express; opposed to circumstantial; as positive proof.
5. Confident; fully assured; applied to persons. The witness is very positive that he is correct in his testimony.
6. Dogmatic; over-confident in opinion or assertion.
7. Some positive persisting fops we know,
8. That, if once wrong, will needs be always so.
9. Settled by arbitrary appointment; opposed to natural or inbred.
10. In laws, that which is natural, bindeth universally; that which is positive not so.
12. Having power to act directly; as a positive voice in legislation.
13. Positive degree, in grammar, is the state of an adjective which denotes simple or absolute quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as wise, noble.
14. Positive electricity, according to Dr. Franklin, consists in a superabundance of the fluid in a substance. Others suppose it to consist in a tendency of the fluid outwards. It is not certain in what consists the difference between positive and negative electricity. positive electricity being produced by rubbing glass, is called the vitreous; negative electricity, produced by rubbing amber or resin, is called the resinous.
1. What is capable of being affirmed; reality.
2. That which settles by absolute appointment.
3. In grammar, a word that affirms or asserts existence.
1. Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.
2. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.
3. Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise.
4. Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof.
5. Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
6. Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.
7. Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation.
8. Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.
9. Electro-positive.
1. That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.
2. That which settles by absolute appointment.
3. The positive degree or form.
4. A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.
5. The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
1. Absolutely; by itself, independent of any thing else; not comparatively.
2. Good and evil removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and not positively or simply.
3. Not negatively; really; in its own nature; directly; inherently. A thing is positively good, when it produces happiness by its own qualities or operation. It is negatively good, when it prevents an evil, or does not produce it.
4. Certainly; indubitably. This is positively your handwriting.
5. Directly; explicitly; expressly. The witness testified positively to the fact.
6. Peremptorily; in strong terms.
8. With full confidence or assurance. I cannot speak positively in regard to the fact.
9. Positively electrified, in the science of electricity. A body is said to be positively electrified or charged with electric matter, when it contains a superabundance of the fluid, and negatively electrified or charged, when some part of the fluid which it naturally contains, has been taken from it.
10. According to other theorists, when the electric fluid is directed outwards from a body, the substance is electrified positively; but when it is entering or has a tendency to enter another substance, the body is supposed to be negatively electrified. The two species of electricity attract each other, and each repels its own kind.
In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.
1. Actualness; reality of existence; not mere negation.
2. 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 is in the habitude of the will only.
3. Undoubting assurance; full confidence; peremptoriness; as, the man related the facts with positiveness In matters of opinion, positiveness is not an indication of prudence.
The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a.
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.
Positivism
Encyclopedia Britannica
POSITIVISM, or Positive Philosophy. See Comte.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 560
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Relating to positivism.
A believer in positivism.
Peremptoriness. [Not used.]
Positiveness.
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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.
And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your positions and follow it.
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had continued to strengthen his position in the house of Saul.
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
Ben-hadad received this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” So they stationed themselves against the city.
And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
Afterward, the prophet approached the king of Israel and said, “Go and strengthen your position, and take note what you must do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”
And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
So do this: Dismiss all the kings from their positions and replace them with other officers.
And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’”