the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > be instanced or exemplified [verb (intransitive)] > for instance (2)
With object implied and parenthetically. Often: for example, as, say (also as suppose). intransitive with complement. Obsolete.
intransitive. In imperative or let us say, used parenthetically. Indicating that the following (in later use also preceding) words express what is…