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Definition of Ensample
1. n. An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
2. v. t. To exemplify, to show by example.
Definition of Ensample
1. Noun. (obsolete) An example; a pattern or model for imitation. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To exemplify, to show by example. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ensample
1. an example [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensample
Literary usage of Ensample
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Took on with plaint, upheaving to the skies doing, I, Sir John Froissart, will
treat and And Sorrow eke in far more woeful wise, have ensample to encourage ..."
2. Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in by Mary Baker Eddy (1899)
"Christ Jesus the ensample. SECT. 3. He who dated the Christian era, is the ensample
in Christian Science. Careless comparison, or irreverent refer- ..."
3. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"... have Christ and his apostles for an ensample, which thing he also promised me."
In reference to the place of Tyndale's abode, when Boye came to him, ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Samuel Rolles Driver (1901)
"'ensample' seems to be an Eng. spelling. The Lat. plum appears in old Fr. as ef
... Skeat quotes an old Kr. tr. of Hu 411 ' que ele soit ensample de vertu,' ..."
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