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Definition of Ostension

Ostension
Ostension Os*ten"sion, n. [L. ostensio a showing: cf. F. ostension. See Ostend.] (Eccl.) The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants.

Meaning of Ostension from wikipedia

- Ostension is the act of showing or demonstrating something. In communication theory and especially in relevance theory, ostensive behaviour or ostension...
- familiar in philosophical literature" (P****more 1966, p. 344). Look up ostension in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comprehension Enumerative definition...
- by the wounding of the woman whose house had become the focus of the ostension. The panic over youth Satanism in the 1980s was fueled in part by graffiti...
- The Limousin septennial ostensions (French: Ostensions limousines) is a series of religious processions in commemoration of the relics of Roman Catholic...
- Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind is a 2014 book by Chad Engelland in which the author provides a philosophical introduction to ostension...
- the legends, "occasionally become dramatic enactments known as "ostension"". Ostension, according to Magliocco, "always derives from a pre-existing legend...
- symbols), to which he proposed four modes of sign production: recognition, ostension, replica, and invention. Julia Kristeva (born 1941), a student of Lucien...
- Geistesleben. p. 60. ISBN 978-3772512735. Quine, W. V. (1950). Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis. The Journal of Philosophy, 47(22), 621. doi:10.2307/2021795...
- These religious objections to use of the Ouija board have given rise to ostension type folklore in the communities where they circulate. Cautionary tales...
- of Brittany". unesco.org. Retrieved 2011-12-06. "Limousin septennial ostensions". unesco.org. Retrieved 2015-12-23. "Gwoka: music, song, dance and cultural...