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Webster 1913 Edition

Posit

Pos′it

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Posited

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Positing

.]

[L.

ponere

,

positum

, to place. See

.]

1.

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

Sir M. Hale.

2.

(Logic)

To assume as real or conceded;

as, to

posit

a principle

.

Sir W. Hamilton.