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- Positive - a. - Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.
- 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.
- Positive - a. - Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise.
- 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.
- Positive - a. - Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
- Positive - a. - Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.
- Positive - a. - Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation.
- 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.
- Positive - a. - Electro-positive.
- Positive - a. - Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Positive - n. - That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.
- Positive - n. - That which settles by absolute appointment.
- Positive - n. - The positive degree or form.
- Positive - n. - A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.
- Positive - n. - The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- Positively - adv. - In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.
- Positiveness - n. - The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a.
- Anelectrode - n. - The positive pole of a voltaic battery.
- 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.
- 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 . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go?" (answer, "I shall go"); "Shall he go?" i. e., "Do you require or promise his going?" (answer, "He shall go".) The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think, you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted.
- Statute - n. - An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
- 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.
- Avouchment - n. - The act of avouching; positive declaration.
- Ambreate - n. - A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.
- Comtism - n. - Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.
- Boride - n. - A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
- 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.
- Positive - n. - The positive degree or form.
- 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.
- Positively - adv. - In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.
- Disqualify - v. t. - To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.
- Electro-negative - a. - Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.
- Skepticism - n. - The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
- Literature - n. - The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
- Weaken - v. i. - To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination.
- 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.
- Quantic - n. - A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic.
- 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.
- Averment - v. t. - The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
- Arsenide - n. - A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.
- Jural - a. - Pertaining to natural or positive right.
- Borate - n. - A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
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- G459 ἄνομος - 459 ἄνομος - ἌΝΟΜΟΣ - - ánomos - an'-om-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and νόμος; lawless, i.e. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication, a Gentile), or (positively) wicked:--without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked. - Adjective - greek
- G820 ἄτιμος - 820 ἄτιμος - ἌΤΙΜΟΣ - - átimos - at'-ee-mos - from Α (as a negative particle) and τιμή; (negatively) unhonoured or (positively) dishonoured:--despised, without honour, less honourable (comparative degree). - Adjective - greek
- G570 ἀπιστία - 570 ἀπιστία - ἈΠΙΣΤΊΑ - - apistía - ap-is-tee'-ah - from ἄπιστος; faithlessness, i.e. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith), or (positively) unfaithfulness (disobedience):--unbelief. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G1301 διατηρέω - 1301 διατηρέω - ΔΙΑΤΗΡΈΩ - - diatēréō - dee-at-ay-reh'-o - from διά and τηρέω; to watch thoroughly, i.e. (positively and transitively) to observe strictly, or (negatively and reflexively) to avoid wholly:--keep. - Verb - greek
- H3533 כָּבַשׁ - 3533 כָּבַשׁ - כָּבַשׁ - - kâbash - kaw-bash' - a primitive root; to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate; bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection. - Verb - heb
- H4513 מָנַע - 4513 מָנַע - מָנַע - - mânaʻ - maw-nah' - a primitive root; to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury; deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold. - Verb - heb
- H8633 תֹּקֶף - 8633 תֹּקֶף - תֹּקֶף - - tôqeph - to'-kef - from תָּקַף; might or (figuratively) positiveness; authority, power, strength. - Noun Masculine - heb