Definition of positive

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Positive (a.) 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..

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Conditionally :: Conditionally (adv.) In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.
Allegation :: Allegation (n.) The act of alleging or positively asserting.
Electro-negative :: Electro-negative (n.) A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
Dispositively :: Dispositively (adv.) In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.
Jural :: Jural (a.) Pertaining to natural or positive right.
Averment :: Averment (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
Avouchment :: Avouchment (n.) The act of avouching; positive declaration.
Positive :: Positive (a.) Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative..
Positive :: Positive (a.) 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..
Negatively :: Negatively (adv.) In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
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..
Prepositive :: Prepositive (a.) Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle..
Authoritative :: Authoritative (a.) Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone..
Appositive :: Appositive (n.) A noun in apposition.
Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative..
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..
Comtism :: Comtism (n.) Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.
Metallic :: Metallic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive..
Assertive :: Assertive (a.) Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
Peremptorily :: Peremptorily (adv.) In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.
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