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Webster 1913 Edition
Exemplar
Ex-em′plar
,Noun.
1.
A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
Such grand
exemplar
as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South.
2.
A copy of a book or writing.
[Obs.]
Udall.
Ex-em′plar
,Adj.
Exemplary.
[Obs.]
The
exemplar
piety of the father of a family. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exemplar
EXEM'PLAR
,Noun.
1.
A model, original or pattern, to be copies or imitated.2.
The idea or image of a thing, formed in the mind or an artist, by which he conducts his work; the ideal model which he attempts to imitate.