affirmative &c 535.

Adj. asserting &c v.; declaratory, predicatory^, pronunciative^, affirmative, soi-disant [Fr.]; positive; certain &c 474; express, explicit &c (patent) 525; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted^; predicable.

The knowing, upon being asked if they possess certain attributes, reply in an immediate affirmative and add others, just to be on the safe side.

My reply was in the affirmative.

" "You remember what I told you about the wig, don't you?" asked Kinch; and, on receiving an affirmative reply, he continued, "Just try that on, and see how it goesyou'll find it'll work like a charm; it's a regular footman-expatriatorjust try it now; you'll see if it isn't the thing to do the business for you."

They inquired whether they should see them, and were answered in the affirmative, and were told, that if they were desirous, they might pay their respects to them, as they were courteous and affable.

Either the affirmative or the negative of the proposition that King Charles wrote the Icon Basilike is as true as that two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side.

When, Cicero sent his son to the University of Athens, he wished to give him a generous allowance,too generous, as we should think, for it amounted to about £640 a year,and he asked Atticus whether it could be managed for him by permutatio, i.e. exchange, and received an affirmative answer.

And here, sir, you and I might bring our discussion to a close, by my putting the following questions to you, both of which your conscience would compel you to answer in the affirmative.

CONTENTS DEFINITION OF SLAVERY, Negative, Affirmative, Legal, THE MORAL LAW AGAINST SLAVERY "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," MAN-STEALINGEXAMINATION OF EX.

The question whether the Huns should join in the struggle for the Chinese imperial throne was therefore decided among the Huns themselves in 304 in the affirmative, by the founding of the "Hun Han dynasty".

Whether my answer, though given in the negative, was uttered in such a tone as to imply an affirmative, thereby exciting suspicion, I cannot tell; but it is certain that I soon after perceived a visible change towards him in the deportment of the whole household.

An affirmative answer was promptly received on Monday morning, July 8th, and that was the first day in the course of the war in which the negro was employed upon the military works of our army.

And Mr. Taynton replied in the affirmative.

The reply was promptly made in the affirmative.

But two negatives in the same clause, if they have any bearing on each other, destroy the negation, and render the meaning weakly affirmative; as, "Nor did they not perceive their evil plight.

14.The common rule of our grammars, "Two negatives, in English, destroy each other, or are equivalent to an affirmative," is far from being true of all possible examples.

In fact, however, the sentence quoted is faulty, in not repeating the adverb when in the last clause; 'or when attended:' which would preclude the negative from being understood in it; for, if an adverb, conjunction, or auxiliary verb, preceding a negative, be understood in the succeeding clause, the negative is understood also; if it be repeated, the negative must be repeated likewise, or the clause becomes affirmative."Ib., p. 330.

It is time, that is here spoken of; and the affirmative ever, meaning always, or at any time, in stead of being a fit alternative for seldom, makes nonsense of the sentence, and violates the rule respecting the order and fitness of time: unless we change or to if, and say, "seldom, if ever."

28.The term not but is equivalent to two negatives that make an affirmative; as, "Not but that it is a wide place.

" NOTE VIII.A negation, in English, admits but one negative word; because two negatives in the same clause, usually contradict each other, and make the meaning affirmative.

I will say no more of this, but proceed to the second point arising out of the affirmative part.

A spasm passed across the face of the witness, and a low sound proceeded from her mouth, which might have been an affirmative answer, but which sounded to me much more like a moan of pain.

It may be added to either the affirmative or the negative (non-da), or stand alone.

The article of the partitive du is retained because of the affirmative character of the phrase.