Pose
(Pose), v. i. To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to
strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a
prude.
He . . . posed before her as a hero.
Thackeray. Pose
(Pose), v. t. [Shortened from appose, for oppose. See 2d Appose, Oppose.]
1. To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] "She . . . posed him and sifted him." Bacon.
2. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.
Barrow. Posed
(Posed) a. Firm; determined; fixed. "A most posed . . . and grave behavior." [Obs.] Urquhart.
Poser
(Pos"er) n. One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact. Bacon.
Posied
(Po"sied) a. Inscribed with a posy.
In poised lockets bribe the fair.
Gay. Posingly
(Pos"ing*ly) adv. So as to pose or puzzle.
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.
Position
(Po*si"tion) n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr.
an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. ) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See Site, and
cf. Composite, Compound, v., Depone, Deposit, Expound, Impostor, Opposite, Propound, Pose,
v., Posit, Post, n.]
1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a
firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it.
Locke. 2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position
of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which
any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a
thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go
before.
I. Watts. 4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose
one's position.
5. (Arith.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; — called also the rule of trial
and error.
