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Webster 1913 Edition


Ostensive

Os-ten′sive

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Adj.
Showing; exhibiting.
Ostensive demonstration
(Math.)
,
a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ostensive

OSTEN'SIVE

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Adj.
[L. ostendo.] Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration, is one which plainly and directly demonstrates the truth of a proposition.