2. Verb. (third-person singular of posit#English posit) ¹
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Definition of Posits
1. posit [v] - See also: posit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posits
Literary usage of Posits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"His mistakes in entering deceiving teller. posits. 4886. Whether bank bound where
4841. Liability of the bank for his deposits made in a manner frauds, ..."
2. Outline of the Geology of the Globe, and of the United States in Particular by Edward Hitchcock (1856)
"... posits of rock-salt on the globe, forming a mountain five hundred feet high.
The geological character of Portugal is so similar to that of Spain, ..."
3. Report of the Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law by California (1900)
"... other than such deposit or de- 16 posits, does not exceed the sum of one
hundred dollars, may 17 pay to said affiant or affiants any deposit of said ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1834)
"pink-coloured deposits being very rare ; posits figured in Dr. Prout's table of co-
... posits ..."
5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"PELAGIUS posits GOD'S AID ONLY FOR OUR " CAPACITY." Let not Pelagius, however,
in this way deceive incautious and simple persons, or even himself ..."
6. The Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Adolph Ernst Kroeger (1868)
"I shall call the former idealism, which cancels something posited in itself,
qualitative idealism ; and the latter, which originally posits itself a limited ..."
7. Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports: Supplementary to Rose's by Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose (1905)
"... posits before determining set-off rights; American Loan, etc., Co. v. Atlanta,
etc., Ry., 99 Fed., holding proceedings by senior mortgagee to foreclose ..."
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