poser (pozer)

[ Let his questions not be troublesome, for that is fit for Bacon , Discourse (ed. 1887). a poser. The university [of Cambridge] appointed Doctor Cranmer (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury) to be the poser-general of all candidates in Divinity. Fuller , Worthies, Norfolk, II. 462. 2. A question that poses or puzzles; a puzzling or difficult question or matter. "What do you think women are good for?" "That's a poser ." C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 161. posied (pō'zid), a . [ posy +-ed2.] Inscribed with a posy or motto. Some by a strip of woven hair In posied lockets bribe the fair. Gay, To a Young Lady, with some Lampreys. posit (poz'it), v . t. [L. posit us , pp. of ponere , place: see position .] 1. To dispose, range, or place in relation to other objects. That the principle that sets on work these organs and worketh by them is nothing else but the modification of matter, or the natural motion thereof, thus or thus posited or disposed, is most apparently false. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 49. 2. To lay down as a position or principle; a ume as real or conceded; present as a fact; affirm. IMG:content-0694.jpg:[blocks in formation]