Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ostensive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ostensive \Os*ten"sive\, a.
Showing; exhibiting.
{Ostensive demonstration} (Math.), a direct or positive
demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect
method.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ostensive
adj 1: manifestly demonstrative
2: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible
purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn: {ostensible}]
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