单词 | exemplate |
释义 | exemplaten. Philosophy and Theology. rare before 20th cent. Something that is modelled on or derives from an archetypal exemplar (exemplar n. 1b(a)). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > something made after exemplate1677 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 321 The Divine Essence, which representes al things; as an Exemplar directes the operation of God in producing the Exemplates or things formed according thereunto. 1923 tr. St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles II. lxxiii. 192 For by the command of the intellect there is formed in the imagination a phantasm corresponding to such and such an intelligible species, and in this phantasm the intelligible species is reflected as an exemplar in the exemplate [L. exemplato] or image. 1952 Mod. Schoolman 30 23 The truth of the divine intellect is causal; what it causes is the truth of the created being, which is therefore an exemplate of the divine art. 1993 R. E. Barron tr. St. Thomas Aquinas De Potentia vii. iv. §.5 in Study De Potentia T. Aquinas vii. 313 Exemplates do not always perfectly represent the exemplar; consequently, sometimes what is found in the exemplar is deficiently and imperfectly found in the exemplate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † exemplatev. Obsolete. transitive. To illustrate or explain with an example or examples; to give an example of; to exemplify. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > illustrate or show by instances or examples bisaumple?c1225 exemplate1602 instance1608 illustrate1612 sample1613 exemplarize1641 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 193 Might it be without offence to exemplate out of Parsons Philopater by what meanes the change of religion came, I could, [etc.]. 1661 S. Stone Deceivers Deceiv'd Ep. Ded. sig. A3v He doth not scruple your acceptance thereof now, it being frequently exemplated in impressions of other Sermons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1677v.1602 |
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