Ostensive

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ostensive \Os*ten"sive\, a.
     Showing; exhibiting.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Ostensive demonstration} (Math.), a direct or positive
        demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect


        method.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ostensive
       adj 1: manifestly demonstrative
       2: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible
          purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn: {ostensible}]