The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exemplify \Ex*em"pli*fy\v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exemplified; p. pr. & vb. n. Exemplifying.] [L. exemplum example + -fy: cf. LL. exemplificare to copy, serve as an example.]
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To show or illustrate by example.
He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up.
--Cowper. To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
--Holland.To prove or show by an attested copy.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: exemplify)
WordNet
v. be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" [syn: represent]
clarify by giving an example of [syn: illustrate, instance]
[also: exemplified]
See exemplify
Usage examples of "exemplified".
In the educative process, however, as previously exemplified, we find that the child is not a slave to the passing transient impressions of the present, but is able to secure a control over his experience which enables him to set up intelligent aims, devise plans for their attainment, and apply these plans in gaining the end desired.
The black market under the Matsuda gang in Tokyo, which had some two thousand members at its peak, exemplified the complexity and volatility of these arrangements.
The third attention is timeless, and the 18 million years exemplified by the above, have no significance whatever.
This has been exemplified in our own day in Bembo, in Sanazzaro, in Caro, in Guidoccione, in the Marchioness of Pescara, and in other writers and lovers of the Tuscan rhyme, who, although gifted with the highest and most singular genius, none the less, not being able of themselves to do better than nature exemplifies in Petrarca, they set themselves to follow him, but so happily that they are judged worthy to be read and counted with the best.
Michael Angelo did not content himself with knowing only the main features of architecture, but wished also to know about everything that could be useful in any way in that profession, such as ties, platforms, scaffolding, and such like, he knew as much of these things as those who profess nothing else, which was exemplified in the time of Julius II.
Can Michael Angelo have had any thought of the doom of these his creations, as exemplified by him on the altar wall, twenty-two years afterwards?
A philosopher once said that every man has in him at least one poem which he could write under the stress of great emotion, and that night Leigh unconsciously exemplified the truth of the saying.
It was such as these, their successors, whom his daughter characterised with scorn, impatient of the passing fads and fancies common to their age, of an immaturity which she herself had exemplified so much less venially.
Lear signally exemplified, through every phase of passion, that temperance which should give it smoothness.
It is a study of an obscure portion of the intellectual history of our species as exemplified in one of its varieties.
This resemblance may be exemplified by the numerals, one, two, four, seven, eight, twenty.
The value of the moral powers, and their frequently incredible influence, are best exemplified by history, and this is the most generous and the purest nourishment which the mind of the General can extract from it.
From a plainer perspective, the men and women who worked the market exemplified, without varnish, a pragmatic materialism and even an exemplary work ethic.
Many commentators were appalled by the literary developments exemplified by popular writers such as Dazai, Sakaguchi, and Tamura.
In Latin literature no popular terror is more frequently alluded to or exemplified than the dread of seeing ghosts.