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Exampling

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ex⋅am⋅ple

  [ig-zam-puhl, -zahm-] noun, verb, -pled, -pling.
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–noun
1. one of a number of things, or a part of something, taken to show the character of the whole: This painting is an example of his early work.
2. a pattern or model, as of something to be imitated or avoided: to set a good example.
3. an instance serving for illustration; specimen: The case histories gave carefully detailed examples of this disease.
4. an instance illustrating a rule or method, as a mathematical problem proposed for solution.
5. an instance, esp. of punishment, serving as a warning to others: Public executions were meant to be examples to the populace.
6. a precedent; parallel case: an action without example.
–verb (used with object)
7. Rare. to give or be an example of; exemplify (used in the passive).
Origin:
1350–1400; ME exa(u)mple < MF example < L exemplum, akin to eximere to take out (ex- ex- 1 + emere to buy, orig. take); r. ME exemple < L, as above

Synonyms:
1. Example, sample, specimen refer to an individual phenomenon taken as representative of a type, or to a part representative of the whole. Example is used of an object, condition, etc., that is assumed to illustrate a certain principle or standard: a good example of baroque architecture. Sample refers to a small portion of a substance or to a single representative of a group or type that is intended to show what the rest of the substance or the group is like: a sample of yarn. Specimen usually suggests that the “sample” chosen is intended to serve a scientific or technical purpose: a blood specimen; zoological specimens. 2. See ideal. 3. See case 1 .
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Word Origin & History

example 
1382, Latin-zed refashioning of earlier essample, from O.Fr. essample, from L. exemplum "a sample," lit. "that which is taken out," from eximere "take out, remove" (see exempt). Oldest Eng. senses are of "behavior" and "punishment."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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