the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ad. In an ostensive manner.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In appearance; ostensibly.
Word Usage
"This is brought out "ostensively," as Bacon would say, in "Don Quixote," or in the Russian novel "A Simple Story" -- apparently so called because it is so complex -- in which Gontcharov's hero lives in what Alice might call"