Definition of positive

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Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.

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Prepositive :: Prepositive (n.) A prepositive word.
Dispositively :: Dispositively (adv.) In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.
Absoluteness :: Absoluteness (n.) The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
Diaphanotype :: Diaphanotype (n.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
Idorgan :: Idorgan (n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon..
Roundness :: Roundness (n.) Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion..
Affirmative :: Affirmative (a.) Positive; dogmatic.
Recital :: Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation..
Positive :: Positive (n.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact..
Allegation :: Allegation (n.) That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment.
Affirm :: Affirm (v. i.) To declare or assert positively.
Melanotype :: Melanotype (n.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture..
Alloxanate :: Alloxanate (n.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
Dogmaticalness :: Dogmaticalness (n.) The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.
Characteristic :: Characteristic (n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .
Bisulphate :: Bisulphate (n.) A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate..
Doctrinally :: Doctrinally (adv.) In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.
Transpositive :: Transpositive (a.) Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.
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