example vb. (2 a late 16th cent. sense)
1.
to give
an example of LLL. III. i.
89, Sonn. lxxxiv. 4.
2.
to furnish a
precedent for LLL. I. ii.
122,
IV. iii. 124
“Ill, to ill,”
John IV. iii. 56, H5 I. ii. 156,
Troil. I. iii. 132
“every step, E-d by the
first pace.”
3.
to furnish (one) with
instances Tim. IV. iii.
441.