Definition of positive

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Positive (a.) Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise..

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Print :: Print (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface..
Ambreate :: Ambreate (n.) A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.
Thetical :: Thetical (a.) Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law..
Memory :: Memory (n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong..
Positive :: Positive (a.) Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative..
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Mood :: Mood (n.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode..
Positive :: Positive (a.) 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..
Downright :: Downright (a.) Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way..
Alloxanate :: Alloxanate (n.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
Definitive :: Definitive (a.) Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express.
Asseverative :: Asseverative (a.) Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Absoluteness :: Absoluteness (n.) The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
Peremptory :: Peremptory (a.) Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
Belief :: Belief (n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses..
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact..
Parabola :: Parabola (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes..
Negatively :: Negatively (adv.) In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
Bibasic :: Bibasic (a.) Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.
Prepositive :: Prepositive (n.) A prepositive word.
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