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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.
egzem'plify. [from exemplar; Low L. exemplo.]
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.