| 单词 | to give or make instance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give or make instance a. A fact or example brought forward in support of a general assertion or an argument, or in illustration of a general truth. Hence, any thing, person, or circumstance, illustrating or exemplifying something of a more general character; a case, an illustrative example. Also, in broader sense, a case occurring, a recurring occasion. †to give or make instance; = instance v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc. asaumplea1250 evidencec1391 piecea1393 examplea1398 samplera1400 exemplarc1475 paradigm1483 instant1560 precedenta1575 exemplification1582 exemplary1583 instance1592 instancy1613 copy1641 specimen1659 patron saint1803 for instance1959 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > be instanced or exemplified [verb (intransitive)] > give an instance or example exemplify?a1439 to give or make instance1592 example1616 sample1871 to give (one) a for instance1959 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. F4, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) I will but giue you an instance of the same. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 156 Full of wise sawes, and moderne instances . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 101 Hee adds, that many miracles are heere done, and first gives instance in the person of the Marques of ——. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. vi. 117 Did not you confess that they were able..to do the works of common Grace? and that in abundance of instances? a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 46 Theophrastus..making instance in the Olive, hath left this Doctrine unto us. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 250 I thought him a very great instance of continency. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. ii This is an instance of conformity. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iv. 57 Noy..is an instance that mere knowledge is not true wisdom. 1860 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 5) Introd. 19 Without something more than the mere form, there can be no instance of a law, an instance being the presence of the law in an object capable of containing it. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §4. 189 We may take..a foreign instance to illustrate this fundamental point in our municipal history. < as lemmas |
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