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θετικός , ή, όν,
A.fit for placing, ὀνομάτων θ. prompt at giving names, D.H.Comp.16, cf. Ph.2.101. Adv. -κῶς appositely, D.H.Rh.3.5.
II. concerning adoption, “νόμοι” Arist.Pol.1274b4.
III. belonging to a θέσις, disputable, “ὑπόθεσις” Philostr.VS2.6; τὰ θ. τῶν χωρίων ib.29; so τὰ θ. alone, Phld.Rh.1.206S.; “θ. κεφάλαιον” Theon Prog.2; τὴν ζήτησιν θ. ποιεῖσθαι to make the question a matter of argument, Str.2.3.7; Lat. genus instituendi θετικώτερον, addressed to reason rather than feeling, Cic.QF3.3.4. Adv. Comp. “-κώτερον” Aps. p.333H.
IV. positive, affirmative, opp. negative (ἀρνητικός), Numen. ap. Eus.PE14.8. Adv. -κῶς positively, affirmatively, D.L.9.75; οὐ λίαν θ. not very positively, Phld.Rh.1.371S.
2. Gramm., positive, τὸ θετικόν the positive degree, Sch.D Il.4.277.
b. expressing obligation, of verbals in -τέον, D.T.642.16; θετικῶς: τὸ ὀφειλόμενον γενέσθαι, Hsch.
V. arbitrary, “χρῆσις τῶν ὀνομάτων” S.E.P.2.256. Adv. -κῶς ib.1.38.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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