ensample
English
Etymology
From Middle English ensaumple (noun) and ensaumplen (verb), from Old French ensample.
Noun
ensample (plural ensamples)
- (archaic) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Peter 5:3:
- Being ensamples to the flock.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IX, xxviii:
- The bold ensample of their father's might / Their weapons whetted and their wrath increas'd.
- 1662 Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Second Sunday after Easter
- Almighty God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an ensample of godly life:
- 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
- I hope that it may be taken by all of us as a lesson, and an ensample, and a teaching of the Lord's mercy.
- 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 111.
- By which ensamples this thing shall be made manifest unto such as may be offended at any part of this my book.
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Verb
ensample (third-person singular simple present ensamples, present participle ensampling, simple past and past participle ensampled)
- (obsolete) To exemplify, to show by example.
References
- ensample in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Speelman, empanels, emplanes
Middle English
Etymology
Old French ensample
Noun
ensample (plural ensamples)
- example
Old French
Noun
ensample m (oblique plural ensamples, nominative singular ensamples, nominative plural ensample)
- Alternative form of essainple