demonstrator (demonstrator)

[F. dé mon str at eur, OF. demon str eur = Sp. demostra dor = Pg. demon strad or = It. dimostratore, demonstrator, on str at or, monstrate.] 1. One who points o One who points out, exhibits, or explains by examples; specifically, in ecifically, in an at., ains by example one who exhibits, describes, describes, and explains the parts when di ected; di ected; a teacher of of practical anatomy. In 1805, he [Sir Benjamin Brodie] a isted Mr. Wilson in teaching anatomy, and in 1809 officiated as demonstrator. Gallery of Medicine , Sir B. Brodie. 2. One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty or with indubitable evidence. IMG:content-2350.png:[blocks in formation] thenic. Emphatic and abnormal position of single words and phrases was a distinctly Demos then i an device, to prick his hearers as it were, and keep their attention at a high degree of tension. Trans. Amer. Philol. As8., XVI. 127. Demo sthenic (de-mos-then'ik), a. [L. De mosthenicus, In Egyptian writing the demotic or enchorial system is a corruption of the hieratic. Farrar , Language, xiii. It [the Rosetta stone] was engraved in three sets of characters, the first being in the ancient hieroglyphics, the second in the more recent and popular language and characters called demotic , and the third in the Greek. Blundeville, demonstratory (de-mon's tra-to-ri), a. [ demonstrator i us , demonstrator : see demon- Chaucer. strator.] Tending to demonstrate; demonstra- tive. [Rare.] Demonstration , in the Greek ἀποδείξις, is amongst the geometricians a delineation of a diagram, in which they exhibit the truth of their propositions to be seen by the script i on or false delineation. Now these words, as many which are used in the doctrine of syllogism, are translated from geometry into logic; and there demon strati on is taken sometimes for any certain and perspicuous proof, but here in this place strictly for syllogism scientific, and pseudographema, or false syllogism, for syllogism begetting error or contrary to science. Burgersdicius, tr. by a Gentleman.