What is that which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model. Such temperate order in so fierce a cause Doth want example. Shak called?
example — That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model. Such temperate order in so fierce a cause Doth want example. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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