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exemplificate

exemplificate verb: to exemplify.

Verb

exemplificate (third-person singular simple present exemplificates, present participle exemplificating, simple past and past participle exemplificated)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, chiefly non-native speakers' English) To exemplify.
    • For better comprehension I'll exemplificate the flaming character with a couple of example names (note that a same name can belong to two or more categories).1993 March 4, Moana Lombardi, “flamers taxonomy”, in alt.flame (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026
    • To exemplificate what I mean, consider the following representation of the province of New Brunswick/Nouveau Brunswick: […]1999 July 27, Ken Butler, “Hey, I've got a Replogle too!”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026

Examples of exemplificate in a sentence

  • Allow me to exemplificate : Adobe GoLive uses DDE for text documents.2000 November 8, Ndi, “ShellExecute Problem”, in borland.public.delphi.winapi (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026:
  • Basically, the API I exemplificated in the first exemple.^([sic])2006 July 5, <eduardo.padoan@gmail.com>, “EnhancedObject: Yet Another Python ORM (an RFC)”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet), archived from the...

Forms of exemplificate

third-person singular presentexemplificates
present participleexemplificating
past participleexemplificated
pastexemplificated

Origin of exemplificate

Back-formation from exemplification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan and Portuguese exemplificar, from Latin exemplificō.

Questions about exemplificate

What does exemplificate mean?
Exemplificate means to exemplify.
How do you use exemplificate in a sentence?
Allow me to exemplificate : Adobe GoLive uses DDE for text documents.
What part of speech is exemplificate?
Exemplificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of exemplificate?
The past tense of exemplificate is exemplificated.

Words near exemplificate in the dictionary

  1. exemplative
  2. exemple
  3. exemples
  4. exempli gratia
  5. exemplifiable
  6. exemplificate
  7. exemplificated
  8. exemplificates
  9. exemplificating
  10. exemplification
  11. exemplificational

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