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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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che Positions is che sum desred.
4. AII ehe Propolrions resolved bY Single P0
sirion, will be retolved by Double Position.
POSTHIVE DegreC OF Comparison in Gram-
mar, is chac which signities etic Thins simpli
and absolurelr, without comparins ic wich o
Ehers; it belonos ony co Adjectires.
POSITIVE Levity. Sec Levity.
POSTTWVE Duantiries in Alsebra, arc suct 25
arC OF a Keal and Afirmatire Nature, and ci-
cher hare, or are supposed to have che AFirma-
rire ox Posirire Sign-) Before chem, and ris al
vays used in oppolition ro che Negative Duanti-
cies, Whichare delective, and hare chis Sien-
betore them.
eOSSF Comitatus, a Ferm in Law, signity-
ins che Aid and Acrendance oF all Kniehis, Cen-
Elemmen, ZeOmen, LAbOUFCKS, SCrVANES, APpren
rices, and all ochers, abore the Age oF Filteen
Tears wichin che Conner; except Women, FC.
clesrastical Persons, and such as are decrepid, Or
laboux oF an Intrmier: And the Scature ot
nisce, atrer che same is fulls pased, and all
thinos performed couchins che lame; ctiC Rare
thereot is (0 much, and hale (0 much 25 W2s
Paid rothe Kins for che line, and is Collected
by che Sherif oE che Couner, where che L anc
Coc. lies, Whereot the fine was leried, tobe an-
sivered by him into che Exchequer.
POST Terme, IS a Rerurn OF L WVrIE, HOLON-
I aster che Dar alsigned For he Recurn chereot,
buc atter che Term allo; For Which, the Custo
brevium cakes eHe Fec oF Tiveney Pence; lome
times allo, it is taten For the Fec ir selF.
POSTERH, in Fortiticarion, is a Fasse D00.
ulually made in che Anele of che Flank, and of
cheCurcain, or near ihe Orillon For privare Eal-
lies.
POSTICOM, is che Postern Gate, Or Back.
Door oF any Fabricke.
POSTOLATES, Or Demands in Mathema-
ticks, _c. are uch easie and set f- evident SupPO.
sicions as necd no Explicarion or Illuctration 10
render them Incellisiblc. A5
That a Risht Line maybe drann from one Point
to another.
That a Cirele may be described on any C entre si-
ven os any Magnitude, etc
POSTOLATION (inthe Lav) is made ux-
e FT. 3. cap. 8. CayS, That Persons able to Travel, on the Dnanimons Vorine OF anYy PCFION EO=
Pall be assistant in ehis Service, wtich is uled
wrtrere a Possetion is Kepe upon a Forcible Fn-
FEY, OF ANY FOECC OF REICHE UTCd, CONFTAEY 1O
he Command oF che RineSWVriC, Or in opposi
tion ro che Execution ot jultice.
POSSESSION, in a Legal Sense, is ratcen
Ervotold, Actual and in Lam: Actual Possession
is, When a Man actually enters into Lands and
Fenemens cohim descended. Possession in Lar
is, Wvhea Lands Ox Penements are descended ro
a Man, and he hach nor as vet actually enrrec
inco chem. Asfor fixample.
Betore or until an Ottice be Found ot Lands
Fscheated by an Acrainder, the King hach onty
a Possession in Lam, and nor in Deed: There is
alo a Onier ot Possession, Whichche Civilians cal
Consolidationem. IF che Lord purchase che Te-
nancs held by Ferios Service, then the Periot is
excinet by Onier oF Possession; thac is, lecause
che seipniors and che Tenanes are no in one
ManS Possession.
POSSESSIVES, in Crammer, are such Ad
joctives 25 signise che Posestion Ot, Or PrOperrY
in Ponic Thine.
POSTEA, in Law, is che Return OF thC PFO-
cecdines by Nisi prius, inro che Courr ot Com-
Dignier or Osice, ot wrhich he is not capable
by che Ordinary CatOnS Ox Statures, wichout
Special Dispenlation
POTANS, OE Potence, L ParE OC 2 Wacch:
see under Ballance
POTENT, Or Potence, the
Term for a Cross in Fleralder.
Formed into this Figure.
He bearech Sable, 2 Cros.
Porent, Or, by che Name oE
Allern
LhIS FOrM Reprelents che
upper end ot a Crutch; For
Ancienls Crurches vere cal.
led Potemts.
wtrichis, nOr thac ICM a Plane is actually Colc
toche Touch, buc chat ic is Cold in its Fffects
mon-Pleas, afcer a Verdict, and chere atcerwards and Operations, il catren Inwardly. And wvten-
Recorded.
FOSE Brachiale, vid. Metacarpus.
POSE Diem, is the RCtuEn OF 2 NVrir aETeF
the Day astioned, For wrtich the Custos Brevium
hath four Pence, Wvhereas he hach nothing it it
be recurn d ac the Day; Pometimes it is caken
Forthe Fec IE PCIF.
POst Byscm, is a Wric siven by the Sca-
cure ot estminst. 2. cap. 26. det IeS LOt MII
that tavins recovered Lands or Penemenes by
Praecipe quod reddat, uxon the Detaulr or Reddi-
tion, 1 25ain dinseised by che former Disscilor.
fOSL tinc, I Law, is a Dues belonging 10
the Kino, For a Fine Formerly acknoled sed be-
Thacthis Body, wtich ther call Potentially Cold.
is made up ot Corpuscles oF Tuch 2 Sizc, Strape
(9c. thac beins disjomed and relolred by thc
SelreS WiFMMIC HIaIL PaLIS OT CIIC BIVOC aHIC OIHICL
Liguors, as BY CIOGBIAS aNA LIIIDEMIMB CHCIM W
Iake FHICIIL aCL M a PCCMUaL Was, ao Wes as lelS
briskly on che Nerrous and Fibrous parrs. OF ehe
Body: The Perceprion OE exhich Imminution
tore him in his Couri, ubtich is paid by che C05. Or perhaps Chanse oE Morion in ilic Orsans ol
Fectine
quat in Nurbers
3. HE BOTH MhC FrrOrs Be
anid ver their Signs unsikre, halF. OF bOr
POTENT Coamet Laene, 2 Ferm in Feral-
dey: Dec airy lopp)
POFLHETAL Colaness, is a Relative Ouali-
ey rhich sene Dus Simples, or Compound
Medicines are suppoled ro be endoved vich
And Meretore rou will sind frequenely in some
OId Books, or in the Wricings ot such as Follon
he OId PHVHCTAnS, ThaC LUCH a LLaMH OL OTUS
is cold in the 2d or 3d Deoree: The meanins ot
evet sueu an Lfect doch tollo che calcins ol
CucH a Meaicine, ME. Boyle thus aCCOnNES FOE A
accordins ro the Mechanical Philosopty, viz
Menstruum Ot the Scomach, or the Lluids iE mas
ellerrhere neet wich, chez a IO aLOLLALE CIILIH
lessen their WOIICed ASITaTIOn; and perhapS aIO 10