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ostensive

Adjective

os=ten=sive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

ostensive(s = adj.all) Array - manifestly demonstrative; Array
ostensive(s = adj.all) ostensible - represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"

ostensive, a.

Showing; exhibiting. [1913 Webster]

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

ostensive, adj.
1 directly demonstrative.
2 (of a definition) indicating by direct demonstration that which is signified by a term.

Derivative

ostensively adv. ostensiveness n.

Etymology

LL ostensivus (as OSTENSIBLE)

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