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Posited

Posit \Pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posited; p. pr. & vb. n. Positing.] [L. ponere, positum, to place. See Position.]

  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.

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posited

vb. (en-past of: posit)

Usage examples of "posited".

Your friend did not present an adequate synth, and the only way I could see this model existing mathematically is if one posited it were some sort of nonconventional matter.

As members of universal communities of faith, citizens could recognize their ruler and the order represented by him so long as it was possible to render political domination plausible in some sense as the legacy of an order of the world and of salvation that was believed in and posited absolutely [mythic dogma].

It was posited at the time that Heptite Guild members, protected by their symbiont, would be safe from the infection which had killed the original exploratory team exposed to the opalescence - "Fluid metal, Guild Master," Rudney said, "is a more accurate term for the material - FM for short.

Fortunately it was almost dead when the delighted Meer and Talla de posited it on the ground by Sharra's feet.

It can be posited that the planet itself is coated with the debris of the Oort Cloud.

However, it is posited in these tantric treatises that at the point of orgasm, the subtle awareness then becomes evident.

While the principle of the conservation of energy has often been posited by neuroscientists as a physical law that prohibits any non-material influences in the physical world, Richard Feynman (him­self an avowed physicalist) points out that this is a mathematical principle and not a description of a mechanism or anything con­crete.

I have posited it because on other occasions I have had individual insights of the same type.

And on this score two ways of having are posited, one of which is civil and worldly, which the imperial laws define with the words “in bonis nostris,” because we call ours those goods of which we have the defense and which, if taken from us, we have the right to claim.

Whereas with goods perishable with use, such as bread and foods, a simple right of use cannot be considered, nor can de-facto use be posited, but only abuse.

By a particularly clean section of the glazed ceramic, at about the point where a man of the height Marcus and Lucius had posited for our killer would have rested his hand were he leaning against the chim­ney for support, Marcus put his face close and grew agitated.

And he had posited his own theory, an adjunct to Nith Einon's: Here we will make our stand.