Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exemplifying"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.]
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

exemplifying
adj : clarifying by use of examples [syn: {illustrative}]


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