Word Meanings - AVOUCHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
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- AVOUCHMENT
The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton. - AVOUCHABLE
Capable of being avouched. - POSITIVELY
In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. Bacon. Give - AVOUCH
thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke. 2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question - POSITIVENESS
The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - POSITIVE
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. Electro-positive. Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - AVOUCHER
One who avouches. - DECLARATION
That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. Declaration of Independence. See under Independence. - APPOSITIVE
Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - ELECTRO-POSITIVE
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. - POSTPOSITIVE
Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - PREPOSITIVE
Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n. - COMPOSITIVE
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. - EXPOSITIVE
Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson. - SUPPOSITIVE
Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond. - DISPOSITIVE
1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates. 2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. "Dispositive holiness." Jer. Taylor.