EXEMPLAR

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South.

2.
n.

A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Udall.

3.
a.

Exemplary. [Obs.] The exemplar piety of the father of a family. Jer. Taylor.


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