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The act of demonstrating; proof. [Obs.] A certain monstration. Grafton.

agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. Locke.

A showing beforehand; foreshowing.

The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. [R.] Todd.

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

Full demonstration.

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

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

y 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."

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

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

Demonstration; proof. [Obs.] Holland.

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker.

A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration. Shak.

Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause. Prescott.

, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold. Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection. Motley.

t reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc. Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cru…

A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction.

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.