A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Positure, n. [e.m.E. (1600), position, posture, principle laid down, obs. F. positure (1547 in Godef.), L. positūra position, posture, arrangement.] a. Settled position of affairs, situation in respect of the circumstances. b. ? Disposition, hence ? import (of a statement). —1637 Baillie I 15.
I shall shew yow the estate of our affaires as they are, … though as yet, they are hinging without any certaine, so much as propension to settle in any positure, which is knowen to us 1686 Fountainhall Decis. I 431.
The consent standing in nuda emissione verborum, the positure whereof might be mistaken by witnesses by-standers
