Definition of posit

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Posit (v. t.) To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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Face :: Face (v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park..
Paraphrase :: Paraphrase (n.) A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase..
Fixure :: Fixure (n.) Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.
Prepositure :: Prepositure (n.) The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.
Suppositive :: Suppositive (a.) Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed..
Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..
Thereagain :: Thereagain (adv.) In opposition; against one's course.
Panspermy :: Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
Abduct :: Abduct (v. t.) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position..
Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.
Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) An opposite poin.
Negatively :: Negatively (adv.) In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
Square :: Square (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
Echelon :: Echelon (v. i.) To take position in echelon.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Humanity :: Humanity (n.) The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness..
Margin :: Margin (n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
Ironheads :: Ironheads (n.) A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.
Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
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