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单词 to a demonstration
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†to a demonstration
to demonstration (also †to a demonstration): beyond doubt; conclusively. Now rare.
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1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ Pref. p. lxvi It is an extraordinary sagacity that can discover this Chapter in Bede, to be clear to a Demonstration that he makes the Scots to be ancient Inhabitants in Britain.
1688 Bp. J. Williams Pulpit Popery, True Popery xiv. 70 Any one that reads this, would be apt to think that the matter of Fact had never been questioned, or had been prov'd to a Demonstration, beyond possibility of Reply.
1700 C. Leslie Def. Snake in Grass ii. vii. 197 If being Ideots, or most Extravagantly Un-Reasonable cou'd Prove this, the Quakers have done it, to Demonstration!
1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 25 'Tis apparent to a Demonstration, that from every Pair..about two hundred Eggs..are produced.
1777 R. E. Raspe in tr. I. Born Trav. Bannat of Temeswar xii. 111 (note) It was proved to demonstration that the Sigismund gallery really is a Roman work.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. vi. 77 I will..produce evidence which will shew to demonstration, that these certificates..are false as hell!
1843 C. Elizabeth Wrongs of Woman (1844) xx. 262 ‘Now, what inference do you draw from these facts?’ ‘I don't know, sir, I'm sure.’ ‘No? it's plain to demonstration.’
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 236 He proved to demonstration the soundness of the judgment he had formed.
1933 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 23 38 E. Stein has proved to demonstration that Dalmatia always belonged to the West.
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