• Ensample

    Origin

    Old French ensample.

    Full definition of ensample

    Noun

    ensample

    (plural ensamples)
    1. (obsolete) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
      • Bible, Peter v. 3Being 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.

    Verb

    1. (obsolete) To exemplify, to show by example.

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