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English Dictionary: ostensive by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ostensive
adj
  1. manifestly demonstrative
  2. represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
    Synonym(s): ostensible, 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.
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