Part 2925

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.</def>

<blockquote>The grand articles of our belief are as <b>demonstrable</b> as geometry. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Proved; apparent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Demonstrableness</h1> <Xpage=389>

<hw>De*mon"stra*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.</def>

<h1>Demonstrably</h1> <Xpage=389>

<hw>De*mon"stra*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.</def>

<blockquote>Cases that <b>demonstrably</b> concerned the public cause. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Demonstrance</h1> <Xpage=389>

<hw>De*mon"strance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>demonstrance</ets>.]</ety> <def>Demonstration; proof.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Demonstrate</h1> <Xpage=389>

<hw>Dem"on*strate</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>demonstratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>demonstrare</ets> to demonstrate; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>monstrare</ets> to show. See <er>Monster</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial.</def>

<blockquote>We can not <b>demonstrate</b> these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).</def>

<h1>Demonstrater</h1> <Xpage=389>

<hw>Dem"on*stra`ter</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Demonstrator</er>.</def>

<h1>Demonstration</h1> <Xpage=389>

<hw>Dem`on*stra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>demonstratio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82monstration</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.</def>

<blockquote>Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called "proofs;" and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called <b>demonstration</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show.</def>

<blockquote>Did your letters pierce the queen to any <b>demonstration</b> of grief? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Loyal <b>demonstrations</b> toward the prince. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>