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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Indirect \In`di*rect"\, a. [Pref. in- not + direct: cf F. indirect.] 1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as an indirect road. 2. Not tending to an aim purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means as an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal. By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown. --Shak. 3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other --Tillotson. 4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it as indirect results, damages, or claims. 5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as an indirect proof, demonstration, etc {Indirect claims}, claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and supplied by Great Britain. {Indirect demonstration}, a mode of demonstration in which proof is given by showing that any other supposition involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an impossibility; thus one quantity may be proved equal to another by showing that it can be neither greater nor less {Indirect discourse}. (Gram.) See {Direct discourse}, under {Direct}. {Indirect evidence}, evidence or testimony which is circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; -- opposed to {direct evidence}. {Indirect tax}, a tax, such as customs, excises, From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demonstration \Dem`on*stra"tion\, n. [L. demonstratio: cf F. d['e]monstration.] 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason. Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called ``proofs;'' and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. --Locke. 2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief? --Shak. Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. --Prescott. 3. (Anat.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. 5. (Logic) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself 6. (Math.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions. {Direct}, or {Positive}, {demonstration} (Logic & Math.), one in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; -- opposed to {Indirect}, or {Negative}, {demonstration} (called also {reductio ad absurdum}), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr tangere tactum to touch. See {Tangent}, and cf {Task}, {Taste}.] 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: a A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay. b Especially, the sum laid upon specific things as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like Note: Taxes are {annual} or {perpetual}, {direct} or {indirect}, etc c A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as a heavy tax on time or health. 4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson. {Tax cart}, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: indirect adj 1: having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause" 2: not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "must take an indirect couse in sailing" [ant: {direct}] 3: descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: {collateral}, {oblique}] [ant: {lineal}] 4: extended senses not direct in manner or language or behavior or action "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow" [ant: {direct}] 5: not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage"
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