Meanings
present singular third person exemplificates · participle present exemplificating · participle past exemplificated · past exemplificated
- ambitransitivenonstandardchiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo exemplify.
Basically, the API I exemplificated in the first exemple.^([sic])
2006 July 5, <eduardo.padoan@gmail.com>, “EnhancedObject: Yet Another Python ORM (an RFC)”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 20265 more examples
For better comprehension I'll exemplificate the flaming character with a couple of example names (note that a same name can belong to two or more categories).
1993 March 4, Moana Lombardi, “flamers taxonomy”, in alt.flame (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026To exemplificate what I mean, consider the following representation of the province of New Brunswick/Nouveau Brunswick: […]
1999 July 27, Ken Butler, “Hey, I've got a Replogle too!”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026Allow me to exemplificate : Adobe GoLive uses DDE for text documents. So it instructed the DDE server to replace spaces with %20 so internal paramter handling would support HTTP and FTP. Now all OK, Notepad still pops up, opens the file but as the fileexists() function failes, it also pops up a "The file does not exist". Notepad was built for the worst conditions and still works but MS Word simply dies on some configurations.
2000 November 8, Ndi, “ShellExecute Problem”, in borland.public.delphi.winapi (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026I'm still fresh in the .net world, Tnks^([sic]) for any assistence^([sic]) anyway, or links to source code exemplificating something like this...
2002 December 26, Ivo Leitão, “Updating application modules from a database”, in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026why did you think that? you understand english, don't you? i said 'solutions such as...' which is clearly exemplificating and not claiming to be exhaustive. i take back what i said about you drafting statutory instruments!
2004 November 26, possum, “Re: apathy...and the war whore”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026
Origin
- Latinexemplificō
- Englishexemplificate
Back-formation from exemplification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan and Portuguese exemplificar, from Latin exemplificō.
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exemplificate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exemplificate
“exemplificate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exemplificate. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exemplificate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exemplificate.
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