Roget's Thesaurus

#478. Demonstration

Nouns

demonstration, proof, rigorous proof; conclusiveness etc. adj.; apodeixis, apodixis, probation, comprobation. logic of facts etc. (evidence) 467; experimentum crucis etc. (test) 463 [Lat.]; argument etc. 476; rigorous establishment, absolute establishment. conviction, cogency, (persuasion) 484.

Verbs

demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest etc. (be evidence of) 467; confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify etc. 467, settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest. make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the argument; draw a conclusion etc. (judge) 480. follow, follow of course, follow as a matter of course, follow necessarily; stand to reason; hold good, hold water. convince, persuade (belief) 484.

Adjectives

demonstrating etc. v., demonstrative, demonstrable; probative, unanswerable, conclusive; apodictic, apodeictic, apodeictical; irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable; necessary. categorical, decisive, crucial. demonstrated etc. v.; proven; unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted; evident etc. 474. deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following. [demonstrated to one's satisfaction] convincing, cogent, persuasive (believable) 484.

Adverbs

of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course; necessarily, of necessity.

Phrases

probatum est [Lat.]; there is nothing more to be said; quod est demonstrandum [Lat.], Q.E.D.; it must follow; exitus acta probat [Lat.].