Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exemplify; show by example.
- noun A sample or specimen; an instance; a typical example.
- noun A pattern or model; a guiding example.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
- transitive verb obsolete To exemplify, to show by example.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
example ; apattern ormodel for imitation. - verb obsolete To
exemplify , toshow by example.
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Examples
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The word "ensample" means type, or figure, or illustration.
And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses J. Wilbur Chapman
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And herein Bristow Maxwell is an "ensample" unto many bachelors of lighter hue.
Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future Atticus Greene 1881
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3 That of his puissance proud example made; puissance > power, strength proud > (Refers to both "his puissance" and the "ensample") 4 His monstrous scalp down to his teeth it tore, scalp > scalp; _or: _ crown of the head, cranium
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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"ensample" (singular), the whole Church being regarded as one.
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Iz midnite heer, Ai fink its tiem Ai folloed upfis ensample and went 2 bed.
just koolin mah harbles - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
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Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
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For a man must have a good coat at least, and the pockets not wholly empty, before he can look at those whom God has created for his ensample.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Sophocles says that the clever birds feed their parents and their benefactors, and men ascribe piety to them in fables, as a needful ensample to one another.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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And that book seythe also, that Jesu was sent from God alle myghty, for to ben myrour and ensample and tokne to alle men.
bilby commented on the word ensample
"And the ass that he rode upon is a beast of humility, for God would not ride upon no steed, nor upon no palfrey; so in ensample that an ass betokeneth meekness, that thou sawest Sir Launcelot ride on in thy sleep."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 13, 2009