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Appositive :: Appositive (n.) A noun in apposition.

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..

Subsextuple :: Subsesqui- () A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting the combination of constituents (especially electro-negative and electro-positive bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base..

Negatively :: Negatively (adv.) In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.

Dispositive :: Dispositive (a.) Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency..

Suppositor :: Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc..

Dogmatism :: Dogmatism (n.) The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

Pedagogue :: Pedagogue (n.) One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant..

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..

Positive :: Positive (n.) That which settles by absolute appointment.

Positive :: 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..

Doctrinally :: Doctrinally (adv.) In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

Privative :: Privative (a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.

Dogmatically :: Dogmatically (adv.) In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

Amylate :: Amylate (n.) A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

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..

Anelectrode :: Anelectrode (n.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

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..

Asseveration :: Asseveration (n.) The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration..

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