ostensible

  • 51ostensible — adjetivo patente, visible, claro, manifiesto, público, declarado*. * * * Sinónimos: ■ manifiesto, evidente, palmario, palpable, notorio …

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  • 52ostensible — os·ten·si·ble || É‘ stensÉ™bl /É’ s adj. appearing to be true; professed to be a certain way (but often having hidden meaning or intent) …

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  • 53ostensible — adj. Que se puede mostrar. Claro; manifiesto …

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  • 54ostensible — [ɒ stɛnsɪb(ə)l] adjective apparently true, but not necessarily so. Derivatives ostensibly adverb Origin C18: from Fr., from med. L. ostensibilis, from L. ostens , ostendere stretch out to view …

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  • 55ostensible — a. 1. Shown, declared, avowed, assigned, manifest, apparent, exhibited, presented, visible. 2. Specious, plausible, colorable, pretended, professed …

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  • 56ostensible — adj 1. external, outward, superficial, pretended, feigned, assumed, put on; supposed, presumed, reputed, inferred; professed, claimed, purported, avowed, alleged, so called, nominal, in name only. 2. apparent, plain, clear, obvious, evident, Fr.… …

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  • 57ostensible — os·ten·si·ble …

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  • 58ostensible — os•ten•si•ble [[t]ɒˈstɛn sə bəl[/t]] adj. outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended • Etymology: 1720–30; < F < L ostēsn(us), var. of ostentus, ptp. of ostendere to present, display (o(b)s , var. of ob ob +tendere to stretch)… …

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  • 59ostensible —   a. apparent, professed …

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  • 60ostensible agency — An agency created by a course of conduct, for example, the agency of a wife to make purchases on the credit of the husband, arising from his acquiescence on many occasions in her thus binding him. 26 Am J1st H & W § 237. An agency existing when… …

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