De*mon"stra*tive (?), a. [F. d'emonstratif, L. demonstrativus.]
1.
Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
"
Demonstrative figures."
Dryden.
An argument necessary and demonstrative.
Hooker.
2.
Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
3.
Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
"
Demonstrative eloquence."
Blair.
Demonstrative pronoun Gram., a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers.
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De*mon"stra*tive, n. Gram.
A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.
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