Definition of positive

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Positive (a.) Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals..

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Pragmatical :: Pragmatical (a.) Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome..
Let :: Let (v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent..
Allegation :: Allegation (n.) The act of alleging or positively asserting.
Zincoid :: Zincoid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole..
Enough :: Enough (adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer..
Appositive :: Appositive (n.) A noun in apposition.
Oppositive :: Oppositive (a.) Capable of being put in opposition.
Comparatively :: Comparatively (adv.) According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely.
Dogmatize :: Dogmatize (v. i.) To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
Suppositive :: Suppositive (a.) Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed..
Absolutely :: Absolutely (adv.) In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively..
Alloxanate :: Alloxanate (n.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
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..
Residue :: Residue (n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues..
Categorical :: Categorical (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer..
Plus :: Plus (a.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus..
Definitive :: Definitive (a.) Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express.
Transpositive :: Transpositive (a.) Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.
Positive :: Positive (n.) The positive degree or form.
Positivism :: Positivism (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useles
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