Exemplify
[ɪg'zemplɪfaɪ;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɛmplɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) clarify by giving an example of.
(verb.) be characteristic of; 'This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue'.
Typed by Clint--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To show or illustrate by example.
(v. t.) To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
(v. t.) To prove or show by an attested copy.
Inputed by Effie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Illustrate, show by example.[2]. (Law.) Make a certified copy of.
Typed by Hiram
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Illustrate, manifest, embody, exhibit, represent
ANT:Betray, falsify, misrepresent, belie
Typist: Owen
Definition
v.t. to illustrate by example: to make an attested copy of: to prove by an attested copy:—pr.p. exem′plifying; pa.p. exem′plified.—adj. Exem′plifīable.—n. Exemplificā′tion act of exemplifying: that which exemplifies: a copy or transcript.
Checker: Scott
Examples
- They exemplify what I have said. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of female moths belonging to the same family. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The extreme minuteness and delicacy of the electrotype process is strikingly exemplified in its application to the transference of engraved copper-plates. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This may be easily exemplified by looking at an object steadily through different parts of the same lens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I thus became aware of the mutual relations between them and Mr. Pocket, which were exemplified in the following manner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The ideal of interest is exemplified in the artistic attitude. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Never was the distinction between charity and mercy better exemplified than in her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The resistance offered by silica to all impressions is exemplified in the case of flint which consists essentially of silica colored with some impurity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The history of the last half century is not to be understood without an understanding of the mental twist which this story exemplifies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The principle employed in the Edison electrolytic meter is that which exemplifies the power of electricity to decompose a chemical substance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So these two were each exemplifying the Vanity of this life, and each longing for what he or she could not get. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Robbie