Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With direct indication: in the manner of one who indicates or points out, especially with a finger or by a gesture of the hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
deictic way.
Etymologies
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deictic + -ally
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Examples
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Appealing to it deictically, or with a touch of the forefinger or the foot, as when Samuel Johnson kicked the stone to disprove Berkeley's idealism, is taken as an irrefutable refutation of any claim that it is "all language," as so-called deconstruction is, falsely, assumed to say.
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008
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