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The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants.

Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration (Math.), a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.

In an ostensive manner.

Same as Monstrance.

To grant an outpension to.

Too burdensome.

Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) a…

pl. of Penny. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pensive. [Obs.] Shelton.

A pencel. Chaucer.

Held aloft. [Obs.] Bacon.

Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. Bacon. The long, pensile branches of the birches. W. Howitt.

State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. Donne.

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay.

oyed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. Pope.

Made pensive. [R.] Shak.

In a pensive manner.

The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.