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ostensive |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: ostensive adj : represented or appearing as such pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn: {ostensible}]
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