(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:38:57

Os*ten"si*bly (?), adv.

In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.

Walsh.

Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

 

© Webster 1913.

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