examinator 
examinator (e-/.am'i-na-tor), H. [= F. 
iiiih-iir Sp. I'";, ij-fiiiiiiii/iliir = {t.rsiiini 
< LL. i-niiiiiiiiiliir, n weigher, examiner, < L. 
i:finiiiiiiii'i', wei";h, examine: see i:nimnu . \ An 
examiner: as, "a prudent i-xamiHUtor," Ncott. 
Sulllrleiitly ((iialitlfil for |. ;u iimj. iii.nnir! s. and that by 
tin: strict approbation of ili-putinl i'j:iniiiiitilnrs. 
Iliirton, Auat. of Mel., To the Itcadi-r. 
examine (eg-/.am'iu), r. t. ; prct. and pp. I'smii- 
infil, ppr. t'siiiniiiint/. [ Formerly also t'Xii iitin ; 
< MK. I'j'iimitu n, L nun' ni n, < OF. examiner, F. 
rniiiiini r I'r. S[i. 1'g. isuniiiitir = It. esaminari' 
= D. exumineren = (i. ij'/iininii'cn = Dan. rsiiint- 
nere = Sw. i.i-iiiiiiinrii, < L. ejruminare, weigh, 
ponder, consider, tost, examine, < rxumi'ii (<*- 
iniiiii-), tho tongue of a balance, a weighing: 
see exiiiiicn.] 1. To inspect or survey careful- 
ly; look into the state of; scrutinize and com- 
pare the parts of; view or observe in all as- 
pects and relations, with the purpose of form- 
ing a correct opinion or judgment : as, to ex- 
umini' ship (to learn whether she is sea- 
worthy); to examine a composition (for the 
purpose of correcting its errors). 
And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, . . . 
sat down in the tit-st day of the tenth month to examim' 
the mutter. Ezra x. 16. 
Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that 
bread, and drink of that cup. 1 Cor. xi. 28. 
The busy race examine and explore 
Each creek ami cavern of the dangerous shore. 
Cowper, Retirement, 1. 151. 
If, for Instance, we examine the address of Clytemnestra 
to Agamemnon on his return, or the description of the 
seven Argive chiefs, by the principles of dramatic writing, 
we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous. 
Macaulay, Milton. 
2. To subject to legal inquisition ; put to ques- 
tion in regard to conduct or to knowledge of 
facts; interrogate: as, to examine a witness or 
a suspected or accused person. 
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 
The Watch-men are armed with Staves, and stand in the 
Street by the Watch-houses, to examin every one that 
paaseth by. Datnpier, Voyages, II. i. 77. 
3. To inquire into the qualifications, capabili- 
ties, or progress of, by interrogatories: as, to 
examine the candidates for a degree, or for a 
license to practise in a profession; to examine 
applicants for office or employment. 
First, there are the opposing lawyers, who were once 
eiMmiiii'il for admission to the bar, and who may IK dis- 
barred for unworthy or unprofessional conduct. 
1'op. Sci. Mo., XXXIII. 655. 
4. To try or assay by appropriate methods or 
tests : as, to examine minerals or chemical com- 
pounds. = Syn. 1. To scrutinize, Investigate, study, con- 
sider, canvass. 3. To interrogate, catechize. 
examine! (eg-zam'in), H. [< examine, v. Cf. ex- 
Examination. 
Divers persons were cxcommnnicat att this tyme, both 
for Ignorance, and being absent from the dyetts of exam- 
ine. l.iiiiniiii. Diary, p. 195. 
examinee (eg-zam-i-ne'). n. [< examine + -eel.] 
One examined, or who undergoes an examina- 
tion. 
After repeating the .Samaritan's saying to the inn-keep- 
er, "When I come again I will repay thee," the unlucky 
f.r<t>/ihi'-i' added : "This he said, knowing that he should 
see his face no more." Cambridge. Sketches. 
The treatment of the special subject is always one of the 
best features of our examination : that in which the best 
side of the mind of each examinee is a-; a rule most dis- 
tinctly shown. StuNa, Medieval and Mod. Hist., p. 97. 
examiner (eg-zam'i-ner), n. 1 . One who exam- 
ini's, inspects, or tries; one who interrogates a 
witness or an accused person. 
A crafty clerk, commissioner, or examiner will make a 
witness speak what he truly nt-ver meant. 
Sir M. Hale, Hist. Com. Law of Eng. 
2. A person appointed to conduct an examina- 
tion, as in a school or college ; one appointed 
to extimine candidates for degrees or for pub- 
lic employment: as, the examiners in natural 
science, metaphysics, classics, etc. ; civil-ser- 
vice 
I'onilng forward with assumed carelessness, he threw 
towards u* the formal reply of bis examiner*. 
Harpardiana, III. 9. 
3. In the English chancery, an officer of court 
who examines on oath the witnesses produced 
on either side, or the parties themselves. 4. 
In the United States Patent Office, an official, 
subordinate to the commissioner of patents, 
whose duty it is to examine and report upon 
applications for the issue and reissue of pat- 
cuts. ami upon alleged cases of interference 
with rights secured by patent. 5. A custom- 
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house officer appointed to examine merchan- 
dise, baggage, etc., in order to detect and pre- 
vent smuggling and other frauds on the trea- 
sury: called an inspector in the United States 
customs service. 
examinership (eg-zam'i-ner-ship), n. [< ex- 
aminer + -Mtp.J The office of examiner: as, 
the chief e.jcHiiit<-rxliip of the civil-service com- 
mission. 
I had myself, in several examinmhipt III the school of 
Law and Modem History, the best opportunities of mark- 
Ing its effects. 
K. A. Freeman, Contemporary Rev., LI. 824. 
examiningly (eg-zam'i-ning-li), adv. Scruti- 
nizingly. 
she still kept her hand in his, and looked at him exam- 
iuinyly. IJeniye Kliot, Uanlel Deronda, II. 
examplaryt, . An obsolete variant of exem- 
plify. 
example (eg-zam'pl), n. [Early mod. E. also 
example; < ME. example, exsample, also asaum- 
ple, and by apheresis sample (> E. tampli; 
q. v.), but commonly ensample, ensampel, en- 
saumple, < OF. example, exemple, also essam- 
ple, and rarely ensample (with prefix en- for 
eg-, ex-), F. exemple = Pr. exemple, ensemple, etc., 
= Sp. ejemplo = Pg. exemplo = It. esempio = 
D. G. Dan. Sw. exempel, < L. exempliim, lit. what 
is taken out (as a sample), a sample, pattern, 
specimen, copy for imitation, etc., < eximere, 
pf.exemptus, take out, < ex, out, + emcre, buy: 
see exempt. Cf. ensample, sample, exemplar.'] 
1. One of a number of things, or a part of any- 
thing, generally a small quantity, exhibited 
or serving to show the character or quality of 
tho whole ; a representative part or instance ; 
a sample ; a specimen ; an exemplar. 
These pillars are singularly graceful in their form and 
elegant in their details, and belong to a style which, if 
there were more example* of it, I would feel inclined to 
distinguish as the "Oupta style." 
./. Ferffutnm, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 247. 
The Duomo of Flesole, the exquisite Church of .San 
Miniato al Monte near Florence, the Duomo at Pisa, aru 
examples of the work of the Tuscan architects of the 
eleventh century. 
C. B. Xorton, Church-building In Middle Ages, p. 26. 
2. An instance serving for illustration; a par- 
ticular case or circumstance, quotation, or oth- 
er thing, illustrating a general statement, prop- 
osition, rule, or truth. [Though etymologlcally the 
same as sample, an example, in this use of the word, is 
not, like a sample, commonly taken at random, but chosen 
with care for the purpose of aiding the mind of a reader 
or hearer in comprehending an abstract proposition or de- 
scription. An example is, in fact, but a single instance, 
either given alone or with a small number of others, and 
In such a manner that the reader or person addressed has 
no means of judging as to how It has been chosen ; it there- 
fore affords little or no ground for inductive reasoning. 
See sample.] 
An audience rushing out of a theatre on Are, and In 
their eagerness to get before each other jamming up the 
doorway so that no one can get through, offers a good 
example of unjust selfishness defeating itself. 
// Spencer, Social Statics, p. 486. 
Of the union of several distinct cities, standing apart, 
each with its own territory, to form one greater political 
whole, Greek history contains one example only. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 266. 
3. A pattern in morals or manners worthy of 
imitation ; a model of conduct or manner ; an 
archetype; one who or that which is proposed 
or is proper to be imitated. 
Al exemplex are not imitable. 
A. Hume, Orthographic (E. E. T. S.), p. 21. 
I have given you an example that ye should do as I have 
done to you. John xill. 15. 
Oh, thou art gone, and gone with thee all goodness, 
The great example of all equity. 
Fletcher, Valentinlan, Iv. 4. 
Moral principles rarely act powerfully upon the world, 
except by way of example or ideals. 
Lecky, Em-op. Morals, II. 287. 
4. An instance serving for a warning; a warn- 
ing. 
God that is almyghty wolde hane it to be shewed in 
< .ixnii !>['' that men sholde not be prowde for worldly 
richesse. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), 1U. 434. 
Then Joseph her husband, being a jnst man, and not 
willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put 
her away privily. Mat. i. 19. 
tak example frae me, Maries, 
O tak example frae me. 
Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 327). 
5. In roo7., a prepared specimen. 6. In math., 
an arithmetical or algebraic problem, illustrat- 
ing a rule or method, to be worked out by a 
student: as, an example in addition; an example 
in quadratics Argument from example, the same 
as retiKoniii'i f>-mn tina!n : rii, which latter expression has 
superseded the former, ex'cept In translations from Aris- 
totle and other ancient writers on logic. 
exanimate 
feisamanerof arguim-ntution. hrr one thing 
is provfl l>y another, for tin- likcm-hsc that U fomiiir to 
belli them bothe. Sir T. Wilmn. Knle of Beuoti. 
= 8yn. KxanifJ', run,-, n. MII,I,I : I'rrcedenl, Ideal, la- 
stance; archi-tyi-, prototype; rxi-mplinVation. Example 
Is the most general of these words ; it is the only one of 
them that admit* application to that which Is to be avoid- 
ed. AII . f n in/lie is something t guide the understanding, 
so that one may decide what to do and what not to do. 
t'atlern and model express that which is to be closely fol- 
lowed or copied ; they primarily refer to physical shape : 
as, an artist's model; but also freely to the shaping of con- 
duct and character : as, a pattern of sobriety ; a model of 
virtue. Perhaps model suggest* tin- mon- rniplrt exam- 
ple, but the difference between the two words In this re* 
spect is small. A precedent ia an example set in the past, 
a* a legal decision which may be pleaded In law as the 
basis of a further decision, and In private affairs a thinu- 
once done or allowed, and so pleaded as a reason or an 
excuse for more of the same sort : as, a precedent for Indul- 
gence. An ideal is a model of perfection, primarily Imagi- 
nary, but by hyperlHile sometimes real. An example Is 
generally a representative person or thing, but the word 
sometimes used instead of iiutaiiee with reference to 
a representative act or course of conduct : as, to prove a 
rule by examples; to prove a man's fidelity or treachery 
by inntances or examples. 
Princes that would their people should do well 
Must at themselves begin, as at the head ; 
For men by their example pattern out 
Their imitations and regard of laws. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 
They already furnish an exhilarating example of the dif- 
ference between free governments and despotic misrule. 
D. Webster, Speech at Bunker Hill Monument. 
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, 
but as an example to deter. 
Jmuut, Letters, xiil., To the Duke of (irafton. 
Yet he survives, the model and the monument of a cen- 
tury. Story, Speech at Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. 
We have followed precedents as long as they could guide 
us ; now we must make precedents for the ages which are 
to succeed us. 0. W. Holmes, Essays, p. 115. 
Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what ht- 
should tie but Is not. 
Theodore Parker, Crit. and Misc. Writings, I. 
All that can l>e expected in an iil.nl Is that It should ) 
perfect in its own kind, and should exhibit the type most 
needed in its age, and most widely useful to mankind. 
I*clty, Europ. Morals, I. 163. 
The world . . . has produced fewer iiatancet of truly 
great Judges than it has of great men in almost every other 
department of civil life. Horace Binney, John Marshall. 
example (eg-zam'pl), v. ; pret. and pp. exam- 
pled, ppr. erampling. [< example, n. Cf. the 
older verb forms ensample and sample.] I. 
trans. If. To furnish with examples ; give ex- 
amples of. 
I'll example you with thievery ; 
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea ; the moon's an arrant thief, 
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 8. 
2f. To justify by the authority of an example. 
I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may ex- 
ample my digression by some mighty precedent. 
Shak., L. L. L., I. 2. 
3. To set or make an example of; present as 
an example. 
Burke devoted himself to this duty . . . with a fervid 
assiduity that has not often been examvied, and has never 
been surpassed. John Morlett, Burke, p. 87. 
Search, sun, and thou wilt mid 
They are the exampled pair, and mirror of their kind. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, xciv. 
Il.t intrans. To give an example. 
I will example unto you : Your opponent makes entry 
as you are engaged with your mistress. 
11. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
examplert (eg-zam'pler), n. [< ME. exampleir: 
see exemplar and sampler. Cf. ME. ensampler.] 
An exemplar or a sampler; an example ; a pat- 
tern. 
In hys swete langage ther he me vnfold 
That I ther take the exampleir wold 
Off a boke of his which that he had made. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 9.), Int., 1. 131. 
I referre me to them which are skilful! In the Italian 
tongue, or may the better iudge, if it please them to trie 
the same, casting aside this exampler. 
UaUwyl't I'oyages, II. 121. 
examplesst (eg-zamp'les). a. [Contr. of *eram- 
plf left (Dun. Sw. exemjtellos) ; < exampk + -less.'] 
Having no example ; beyond parallel. 
They that durst to strike 
At to exampleu and unblamed a life. 
B. Joiuon, Sejanus, ii. 4. 
exangnionst, ". See exmngvimu. 
exanguloust (eks-ang'pu-lus), a. [< L. w-priv. 
+ aiigulus, a corner.] Saving no angles or cor- 
ners. Bailey, 1727. 
exanimate! (eg-zan'i-mat), r. t. [< L. exani- 
matits, pp. of exanimare (> It. eganimare), de- 
prive of breath, life, or strength, < ex- priv. + 
anima, life: see animate.] 1. To deprive of 
life; kill. Bailey, 1731. 2. To dishearten; dis- 
courage. Bailey, 1731. 
