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To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson. He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay. 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron. His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.

s all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

ation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope.

An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants.

simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

ary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.

Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.

The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. Burke.

Demonstrable; determinable. [Obs.] Hammond.

ulty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.

Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.

See Demon, Demonic.

The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also deuse.] [Low]

An evil spirit; a demon. A dumb man possessed with a devil. Matt. ix. 32.