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==Origins==

==Origins==

OF. example, exemple, a refashioning (after [[Latin]]) of earlier essample (see ASAUMPLE):L. exemplum, f. exem-, eximre to take out: see EXEMPT. The primary [[sense]] is thus ‘something taken out, a SAMPLE, specimen’. The main [[English]] senses are derived from Lat. through French. In the arrangement below the presumed logical order has been adopted in preference to the order in which the senses are recorded in English.

OF. example, exemple, a refashioning (after [[Latin]]) of earlier essample (see ASAUMPLE):L. exemplum, f. exem-, eximre to take out: see EXEMPT. The primary [[sense]] is thus ‘something taken out, a SAMPLE, specimen’. The main [[English]] senses are derived from Lat. through French. In the arrangement below the presumed logical order has been adopted in preference to the order in which the senses are recorded in English.

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1. A typical instance; a [[fact]], incident, quotation, etc. that illustrates, or forms a particular case of, a general principle, rule, [[state]] of [[things]], etc.; a [[person]] or [[thing]] that may be taken as an illustration of a certain [[quality]]. Phrases, for, by way of, example; formerly also (ellipt.) example in same sense.

*1. A typical instance; a [[fact]], incident, quotation, etc. that illustrates, or forms a particular case of, a general principle, rule, [[state]] of [[things]], etc.; a [[person]] or [[thing]] that may be taken as an illustration of a certain [[quality]]. Phrases, for, by way of, example; formerly also (ellipt.) example in same sense.