Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With direct indication: in the manner of one who indicates or points out, especially with a finger or by a gesture of the hand.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a deictic way.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.
Examples
“Appealing to it deictically, or with a touch of the forefinger or the foot, as when Samuel Johnson kicked the stone to disprove Berkeley's idealism, is taken as an irrefutable refutation of any claim that it is "all language," as so-called deconstruction is, falsely, assumed to say.”
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community
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