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Webster 1913 Edition
Exemplify
Ex-em′pli-fy
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Exemplified
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exemplifying
.] [L.
exemplum
example + -fy
: cf. LL. exemplificare
to copy, serve as an example.] 1.
To show or illustrate by example.
He did but . . .
exemplify
the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper.
2.
To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
Holland.
3.
To prove or show by an attested copy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exemplify
EXEM'PLIFY
,Verb.
T.
1.
To show or illustrate by example. The life and conversation of our Savior exemplified his doctrines and precepts.2.
To copy; to transcribe; to take an attested copy.3.
To prove or show by an attested copy.Definition 2024
exemplify
exemplify
English
Alternative forms
Verb
exemplify (third-person singular simple present exemplifies, present participle exemplifying, simple past and past participle exemplified)
- (transitive) To show or illustrate by example.
- (transitive) To be an instance of or serve as an example.
- 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:
- [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
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- (transitive) To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal.
Translations
to show as an example
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