Example, egz-am' -pl, s

Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language · 1890 · p. 74

a sample; a pattern, copy, or model; precedent, to be copied or avoided; a former instance; an instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept; an induction of what may happen again from what has happened once before [Logic andRhet.] (L. from ex, and emo, to take.)