monstration
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin monstratio.
Noun
[edit]monstration
- (obsolete) The act of demonstrating; proof.
- 1878, Jan Jacob van Oosterzee, Practical theology, a manual for theological students:
- The Communio, the true point of lustre in the mass, in connection with which the change of substance takes place, and now, after completed consecration, adoration, and monstration of the host, the body of the Lord is partaken of by the priest.
- 1895, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Life of Sir William Petty 1623 - 1687/Chapter X:
- Representation, or the art of making absent Persons and things present, as often as is requisite—this is imitation, monstration, or demonstration of persons and things
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]monstration (plural monstrations)
- A kind of flash mob popular in Russia, where young people take to the streets with homemade banners and placards sporting absurd, non-political slogans.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monstration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)