examinator (egzaminator)

[F. exam i nateur = Sp. Pg. exam in a dor = It. esaminatore, Burton , Anat. of Mel., To the Reader. examine (eg-zam'in), v . t .; pret. and pp. ехат ined , ppr. examining . [Formerly also exam in ; examinen , examenen, examiner , F. examiner = Pr. Sp. Pg. examinar = It. esaminare = D. examine ren = G. exam in i ren = Dan. exam i nere = Sw. examiner a , exam in are , weigh, ponder, consider, test, examine, examen ( ex amin-), the tongue of a balance, a weighing: see examen .] 1. To inspect or survey carefully; look into the state of; scrutinize and compare the parts of; view or observe in all aspects and relations, with the purpose of forming a correct opinion or judgment: as, to examine a ship (to learn whether she is seaworthy); 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 first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 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. IMG:content-0848.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To subject to legal inquisition; put to question in regard to conduct or to knowledge of facts; interrogate: as, to examine a witne 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 exam in every one that pa eth by. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 77. 3. To inquire into the qualifications, capabilities, or progre of, by interrogatories: as, to examine the candidates for a degree, or for a license to practise in a profe ion; to examine applicants for office or employment. First, there are the opposing lawyers, who were once examined for admi ion to the bar, and who may be disbarred for unworthy or unprofe ional conduct. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXIII. 655. 4. To try or a ay by appropriate methods or tests: as, to examine minerals or chemical compounds. =Syn. 1. To scrutinize, investigate, study, consider, canva .-3. To interrogate, catechize. examinet (eg-zam'in), n. [ Divers persons were excommunicat att this tyme, both for ignorance, and being absent from the dyetts of exam ine. Lamont , Diary, p. 195. examinee (eg-zam-i-nē'), n. [ After repeating the Samaritan's saying to the inn-keeper, "When I come again I will repay thee," the unlucky examinee added: "This he said, knowing that he 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 as a rule most distinctly shown. Stubbs , Medieval and Mod. Hist., p. 97. examiner (eg-zam'i-nėr), n. 1. One who examines, inspects, or tries; one who interrogates a witne or an accused person. A crafty clerk, commi ioner, or examiner will make a witne speak what he truly never meant. Sir M. Hale , Hist. Com. Law of Eng. 2. A person appointed to conduct an examination, as in a school or college; one appointed to examine candidates for degrees or for public employment: as, the examiners in natural science, metaphysics, cla ics, etc.; civil-service examiners. Coming forward with a umed carele ne , he threw towards us the formal reply of his examiners. Harvard i an a , III. 9. 3. In the English chancery, an officer of court who examines on oath the witne es produced on either side, or the parties themselves. 4. In the United States Patent Office, an official, subordinate to the commi ioner of patents, whose duty it is to examine and report upon applications for the i ue and rei ue of patents, and upon alleged cases of interference with rights secured by patent.-5. A custom IMG:content-0849.png:[blocks in formation] An example is a maner of argumentation, wher one thing is proved by another, for the likene e that is founde to be in them bot he. Sir T. Wilson, Rule of Reason. customs service. IMG:content-0850.png:[blocks in formation] I had myself, in several examinerships in the school of Law and Modern History, the best opportunities of marking its effects. E. A. Freeman , Contemporary Rev., LI. 824. examiningly (eg-zam'i-ning-li), adv . Scrutinizingly. She still kept her hand in his, and looked at him exam iningly . George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, li. examplaryt, a. An obsolete variant of exem plary . example (eg-zam'pl), n. [Early mod. E. also exemple ; example , exsample , also asaum ple , and by apheresis sample (> E. sample , q. v.), but commonly ensample, ensampel, ensaumple, example , exemple , also e am ple , and rarely ensample (with prefix enfor es- , ex-), F. exemple = Pr. exemple , e emple , etc., = Sp. ejemplo = Pg. exemplo = It. esempio = D. G. Dan. Sw. exempel , exemplum , lit. what is taken out (as a sample), a sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc., exempt us , take out, ex , out, + emere , buy: see exempt . Cf. ensample, sample, exemplar . ] 1. One of a number of things, or a part of anything, generally a small quantity, exhibited or serving to show the character or quality of the 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 examples of it, I would feel inclined to distinguish as the "Gupta style." J. Fergu on, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 247. The Duomo of Fiesole, the exquisite Church of San Mini a to al Monte near Florence, the Duomo at Pisa, are examples of the work of the Tuscan architects of the eleventh century. C. E. Norton , Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 26. 2. An instance serving for illustration; a particular case or circumstance, quotation, or other thing, illustrating a general statement, proposition, rule, or truth. [Though etymologically 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 description. 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 addre ed has no means of judging as to how it has been chosen; it therefore affords little or no ground for inductive reasoning. See sample .] An audience rushing out of a theatre on fire, and in their eagerne to get before each other jamming up the doorway so that no one can get through, offers a good example of unjust selfishne defeating itself. H. 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 exemples are not imitable. A. Hume , Orthographie (E. E. T. S.), p. 21. I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you. John xiii. 15. Oh, thou art gone, and gone with thee all goodne , The great example of all equity. Fletcher, Val ent in i an, iv. 4. Moral principles rarely act powerfully upon the world, except by way of example or ideals. Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 287. 4. An instance serving for a warning; a warning. God that is almyghty wolde haue it to be shewed in exsample that men sholde not be prowde for worldly riche e. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 434. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example , was minded to put her away privily. Mat. i. 19. O tak example frae me, Maries, O tak example frae Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 327). 5. In zoöl., a prepared specimen.-6. In math., an arithmetical or algebraic problem, illustrating a rule or method, to be worked out by a in quadraties. Argument from example, the same student: as, an example in addition; an example as reasoning from analogy, which latter expre ion has superseded the former, except in translations from Aristotle and other ancient writers on logic. stance; archetype, prototype; exemplification. Example is the most general of these words; it is the only one of them that admits application to that which is to be avoided. An example is something to guide the understanding, so that one may decide what to do and what not to do. Pattern and model expre that which is to be closely followed or copied; they primarily refer to physical shape: as, an artist's model; but also freely to the shaping of conduct and character: as, a pattern of sobriety; a model of virtue. Perhaps model suggests the more complete exam ple, but the difference between the two words in this respect is small. A precedent is an example set in the past, as a legal decision which may be pleaded in law as the basis of a further decision, and in private affairs a thing once done or allowed, and so pleaded as a reason or an excuse for more of the same sort: as, a precedent for indulgence. An ideal is a model of perfection, primarily imaginary, but by hyperbole sometimes real. An example is generally a representative person or thing, but the word is sometimes used instead of instance 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 instances 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 difference 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. Junius, Letters, xiii., To the Duke of Grafton. Yet he survives, the model and the monument of a century. 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. O. W. Holmes, E ays, p. 115. Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be but is not. Theodore Parker , Crit. and Misc. Writings, i. All that can be expected in an ideal is that it should be perfect in its own kind, and should exhibit the type most needed in its age, and most widely useful to mankind. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 163. The world has produced fewer instances 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. exampling. [ 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. 3. 21. To justify by the authority of an example. I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may ex ample my digre ion 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 a iduity that has not often been exampled , and has never been surpa ed. John Morley, Burke, p. 87. Search, sun, and thou wilt find They are the exampled pair, and mirror of their kind. B. Jonson, Underwoods, xciv. II.t in trans. To give an example. I will example unto you: Your opponent makes entry as you are engaged with your mistre . B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. examplert (eg-zam'pler), n . [ 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. S.), Int., 1. 131. I referre me to them which are skilfull in the Italian tongue, or may the better iudge, if it please them to trie the same, casting aside this exampler . Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 121. example t (eg-zamp'les), a. [Contr. of * exam plele ( Dan.Sw.exempellös ); They that durst to strike At so example and unblamed a life. B. Jonson , Sejanus, ii. 4. exanguioust, a . See exsanguious . exanguloust (eks-ang'gu-lus), a . [L.ex-priv. + angulus , a corner.] Having no angles or corners. Bailey , 1727.