Deictically

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • With direct indication: in the manner of one who indicates or points out, especially with a finger or by a gesture of the hand.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. In a deictic way.
  • Word Usage
    "Appealing to it deictically, or with a touch of the forefinger or the foot, as when Samuel Johnson kicked the stone to disprove Berkeley's idealism, is taken as an irrefutable refutation of any claim that it is "all language," as so-called deconstruction is, falsely, assumed to say."
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