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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- dēmonstrātīvus, a, um, adj. [demonstro], pointing out, designating. I. In gen. (very rarely):
digitus
, the indexfinger, forefinger
, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 1, 21.—II. In rhetor., demonstrative, = e)gkwmiastiko/n: genus (orationis), a branch of rhetoric employed in praising or censuring, i. e. laudatory or vituperative (usuually the former), Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; Quint. 3, 4, 14; 2, 10, 11: causa
, Cic. Inv. 2, 4: materia
, Quint. 3, 8, 53; 11, 1, 48: pars orationis
, id. 2, 21, 23; cf. 7, 4, 2.—B. Subst.: dēmonstrātīva, ae, f., demonstrative kind of oratory, Quint. 3, 8, 63 sq.; 3, 8, 8.— Adv.: dēmonstrātīvē, demonstratively, Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 16.
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