1. ostensive - Adjective
2. ostensive - Adjective Satellite
Showing; exhibiting.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHis ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity Source: Internet
Both the dialogues and the evolving paintings were ostensive penitential lessons that even illiterate people (who were the overwhelming majority) could understand. Source: Internet
So, for instance, there is no difference between pointing to a piece of paper, to its colour, or to its shape; but understanding the difference is crucial to using the paper in an ostensive definition of a shape or of a colour. Source: Internet