Emily Dickinson Lexicon

positive, adj. [ME positif < Fr. < L. pōněre, place, put, lay down.] (webplay: admitting, different, know, species, strong).

1. Sure; certain; confident; convinced; fully assured.
2. Believable; plausible; real; genuine; authentic; actual; perceptible; tangible or audible.
3. Explicit; expressed; stated; declared; natural; inherent; fundamental; primary; principal.

positive, n. [see positive, adj.]

Prescription; injunction; decree; edict; law; certainty; surety; [fig.] meaning; message; indication; connotation; interpretation.

positively, adv. [see positive, adj.] (webplay: people, species, witness).

Surely; definitely; certainly; assuredly; absolutely.

possess (-ed, -eth, -ing, possest), v. [OFr < L. possidēre, to possess.] (webplay: agent, dwelling, good, great, have, house, life, long, madness, man, minds, obtain, own, places, proof, sound, take, thing, title, unspeakable, world).

1. Own; have; keep; take as property; hold as a personal belonging.
2. Enjoy; experience; receive; get.
3. Fill; pervade; seize; overcome; overtake; overpower.
4. Retain; withhold; [fig.] know; understand; have knowledge of.
5. Have as a native quality; [fig.] exhibit; show; demonstrate; manifest.
6. [Fig.] deserve; merit.

possession (-s), n. [OFr < L. possessiō-nem, seizing, occupation.] (webplay: ears, enter, estate, eternal, glory, good, have, hold, human, injury, just, long, man, obtain, own, permanent, proof, property, sit, wrongful).

1. Property; belonging; asset; resource; holding; wealth; goods; riches.
2. Owning; acquisition; having title or right to personal property.
3. Land; inheritance; [fig.] promised land.

possibility, n. [Fr. < L. possibilitās < possibilis.] (webplay: circumscribed, love, peace, uncertainty).

1. Chance; opportunity.
2. Eventuality; prospect; potential; likelihood.
3. Ability to accomplish or possess; chance of actually happening; opportunity for desires to be fulfilled.
4. Lack of predictability; uncertainty about the course of future events; what may happen.
5. [Fig.] power; force; influence; capacity to affect; ability to impact.
6. [Fig.] mystery; intrigue; wonder; romance; unknown nature.
7. [Fig.] poetry; verse; ability to express beauty through figurative language.

possible (-r), adj. [Fr. possible or L. possibilis, that can be or may be done, possible < posse, to be able.] (webplay: appear, being, existing, known, learn, love, may, suspend, things, uncertainty).

1. Realistic; conceivable; plausible; able to happen.
2. Feasible; practical; achievable; attainable; easily accomplished.
3. Likely; real; capable of existing.

possible (-'s), n. [see possible, adj.] (webplay: action).

1. Phrase. “The possible”: attainableness; that which can be grasped.
2. Phrase. “The possible”: achievability; that which can be accomplished.

possibly, adv. [see possible, adj.] (webplay: being, course, existing, invested, known, may, new, reduce, sovereign, star, things).

1. Likely; probably; conceivably; plausibly. (166/183, 336/395, 388/672, 527/404, 570/537, 649/759, 1241/1261, 1279/1348, 1293/1279)
2. Perhaps; perchance; maybe; even.

post (-s), n.

² [Fr. < It. posta, station, stand.] (webplay: door, express.) Messenger; herald; dispatcher; informer; letter carrier.