Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not positive.
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Examples
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That the science of chemistry is as impositive as fortune-telling --
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Of positivists, by the route of Abrupt Transition, I think that Manet was notable -- but that his approximation was held down by his intense relativity to the public -- or that it is quite as impositive to flout and insult and defy as it is to crawl and placate.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Seems just a little unscientific, or impositive, to me: marvel to me we're not told 2,163 miles and 36,387 persons.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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He requires it to be granted that his system is _positive_ and that yours is _impositive_.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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