demonstrativa

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, = enkômiastikon: 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.