Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A showing; demonstration; proof.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The act of demonstrating; proof.

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  • noun obsolete The act of demonstrating; proof.

Etymologies

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Latin monstratio.

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Examples

  • Similarly, the Bersih de-monstration chose yellow after the Thai pro-monarch groups.

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  • I have de - monstration for it; because if I play at piquet for six - pence with a manner woman two years younger than myself, I always lose; and there is a young girl of twen - ty who never fails of winning my money at backgam - mon, though she is a bungler, and the game be ecclesi - astic.

    The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... 1813

  • I do not suppose that there is a holy Supreme Being: but 1 enquire whether there be one: and in this manner 1 obtain a full de - monstration.

    Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague 1812

  • And the free stone quarry, be - low the foundation of the wall, is the clearest de - monstration, that the hill itself on which the fort stands, is not formed by a volcano; for free stone has never yet, that I know of, been suspected to be of a volcanic origin.

    The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense 1792

  • If I had it fairly proved by fome fimple and eafily-made Experiments, I fliould be inclined to give a De - monstration, with fome account of the advan - tages which may be derived from it, in mafting, and juftly proportioning the fize and fhape of the fails, &c. to the Society or to the Public.

    Some Account of the Institution, Plan, and Present State, of the Society for the Improvement of ... 1792

  • The Hosts administer protec - grids, as Man rejoins his heavenly that were given thousands of years 76 Similar documents of tion through the Order of Michael; family! ago and the stepping stones that "Michaelilu" exist in Syria, and build pyramids according to the 84 For this will be the time of are being used by the Higher documents of "Tak" exist in Order of Enoch, as tools of trans - Melchizedek and it will be the time Evolution to coordinate our pro - Mesoamerica as a testimony to the figuration (hidden within the very of the bowing of our heads in rev - gram according to every letter and Treasury of Light planted by the topology of the earth); and liberate erence to the living Order of Light mathematical value in the program power of Melchizedek, a s a de - through the Order of Melchizedek. whose name is Melchizedek, of the holy scriptures. monstration of the internal potency 82 Therefore, let it be known forever!

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  • ‘D.monstration lesson,’ said Miss Menzies impartially, ‘to Group A. 1. on Poetry — capital P, by Miss D. K.

    Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

  • ‘D.monstration lesson,’ said Miss Menzies impartially, ‘to Group A. 1. on Poetry — capital P, by Miss D. K.

    Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

  • "They are said both to have been very much encouraged by her earnest solicitations and prudence; and that Essex would have given the surest de - monstration of his loyal purposes, had not death prevented him*

    Peerage of England. ... 1812

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