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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

paradigme

, L.

paradigma

, fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to show by the side of, to set up as an example;

παρά

beside + [GREEK] to show. See

, and

An example; a model; a pattern.

[R.]

“The paradigms and patterns of all things.”

Cudworth.

(Gram.)

An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

(Rhet.)

An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

Noun.

par'adim. [Gr. example, to show.] An example; a model. In grammar, an example of a verb conjugated in the several modes, tenses and persons.