positif, n.m., positive reality, certainty, fact; (gram.) positive.
position, n.f., position, situation, status, standing; posture; stand, place; station of life, case, state; circumstances. — embarrassante; involved circumstances. Fausse —; (arith.) false position. Dans une bonne —; well off. Dans une — peu élevée; in a small, or inferior, position. Être en — de; to be able to. Quelle est sa —? how is he circumstanced?
positivement (-tiv-mān), adv., positively, exactly, expressly, explicitly.
positivisme, n.m., (philos.) positivism.
positiviste, n.m., (philos.) positivist, follower of positivism.
pospolite, n.f., pospolite (Polish nobility).
possédé, n.m., -e, n.f., person possessed, madman, maniac. Un homme — du démon; a man possessed of the devil. Il se démène comme un —; he lays about him like a madman.
posséder, v.a., to possess, to be possessed of, to be master of, to be conversant with, to enjoy, to own, to hold, to have, to be worth (of a person); to be acquainted with. — un emploi; to hold a situation. Les vertus qu’il possède; the virtues he is possessed of. L’ambition le possède; he is eaten up with ambition. Le diable le possède; the devil is in him. Bien — une langue; to be thorough master of a language. Bien — son sujet; to have a thorough command of one’s subject.
se posséder, v.r., to command one’s temper, to command one’s self, to master one’s passions, to contain one’s self. Ne point se —; to be beside one’s self. Il ne se possède pas de joie; he is beside himself with joy.
possesseur, n.m., possessor, owner, master; occupant, occupier. — légitime; lawful possessor.