Exampled

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Illustrated something by showing a typical case or model of it in action
2. Demonstrated a general principle through a particular instance that shows it clearly
3. Showed a quality or rule by means of a concrete case that stands for it

Etymology: "Exampled" is simply the past tense and past participle of "example" used as a verb, so the interesting history lies in the root word. That root comes from Latin "exemplum," meaning a sample, pattern, or specimen made for imitation, and its literal sense was "what is taken out." The Latin word was built from "eximere," to take out, and it passed into Middle English through Old French, where it appeared as "essaumple" and "example." English did not start with this word alone. Before "example" arrived, English speakers had native words for the same idea, including "forebisne" and "bisne," which ultimately came from Old English and eventually faded away. "Example" displaced them, and it survives today alongside "sample," which is a doublet of the same Latin source that entered English by a different route.

Synonyms: exemplify, illustrate, demonstrate