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† ˈpositure Obs.
[a. obs. F. positure (1547 in Godef.) ad. L. positūra position, posture, f. pōnere, posit- to place: cf. also posture.]
1. The fact of being placed; placing, position, or situation; place, locality.
1600Holland Livy xxxv. xxviii. 904 To view and consider the situation and positure of the place on all sides. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God iv. xxiii. (1620) 173 A temple that should haue excelled all the rest in height of positure and magnificence of fabricke. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 177 A station of very uncertain positure. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. xxxii. 288 Area equal to the others, and of the like positure with the others.
2. = posture n. 1.
1614Raleigh Hist. World II. v. iii. §16. 451 Idols,..in such habit and positure as if they were fighting. 1625T. Godwin Moses & Aaron (1655) 63 The positure of the cherubims was such that their faces were each towards the other. 1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 122 Supposing every Body to have a Figure or Positure of its own, out of which it may be disturbed by External Force. 1706Phillips, Positure, Disposition, as The Positure of the Soul.
b. Astrol. Relative position (of the planets, etc.).
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 116 Hee attributeth all to the climate, and positure of the heavens. 1616–61B. Holyday Persius 331 The astrologers observe in that point the positure of the cœlestial constellations, that is the state of the planets amongst themselves, as also the fixed stars. 1800Coleridge Piccolom. iv. i, Ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head.
3. A law, or principle laid down; = position n. 2. rare.
1624J. Hewes Surv. Eng. Tongue A iv, The Rules and Positures of Grammar. Ibid. B j, The chiefe end of our Rules and Positures. |